Disability measurements: impact on research results

Thomas Hugaas; Jan Tøssebro

doi:10.1080/15017419.2011.621654

Disability measurements: impact on research results

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 14 (2012): Issue 4

By: Thomas Hugaas and Jan Tøssebro

Open Access

|Nov 2012

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