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Interrater reliability of two trained raters using a goniometer for measurement of the hand joints

✍ Scribed by Juzl, E. ;Goldsmith, N.

Book ID
117437469
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
126 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0363-5023

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