Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 11 , Pages 1400-1409 , November 2007

Employment After Traumatic Brain Injury: Differences Between Men and Women

  • John D. Corrigan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to John D. Corrigan, PhD, Dept of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ohio State University, 480 Medical Center Dr, Columbus, OH 43210
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  • Lee A. Lineberry, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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  • Eugene Komaroff, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center, West Orange, NJ
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  • Jean A. Langlois, ScD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
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  • Anbesaw W. Selassie, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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  • Kenneth D. Wood, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center, West Orange, NJ

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 Supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (grant no. H133A011403), the Ohio Regional Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (grant no. H133A020503), the South Carolina Traumatic Brain Injury Follow-up Registry (award no. U17/CCU421926), and the Henry H. Kessler Foundation.

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)01344-5

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.08.006

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 11 , Pages 1400-1409 , November 2007

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