The Assessment and Selection of Potential Rehabilitation Patients in Acute Hospitals: A Literature Review and Commentary
@article{New2009TheAA,
title={The Assessment and Selection of Potential Rehabilitation Patients in Acute Hospitals: A Literature Review and Commentary},
author={Peter Wayne New},
journal={The Open Rehabilitation Journal},
year={2009},
volume={2},
pages={24-34},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16753582}
}The assessment of patients in acute hospital for rehabilitation is an important skill that has the potential to prove patient outcomes and there is a need for further research.
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