Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 6 , Pages 987-993 , June 2009

Psychometric Properties of a Scale to Assess the Severity of Bathing Disability

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 Supported by the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation (grant no. DF07-009), the National Institute on Aging (grant no. R01AG022993), and a Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research grant from the National Institute on Aging (grant no. K24AG021507). The study was conducted at the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (grant no. P30AG21342). None of the funding organizations played any role in the design, conduct, or reporting of the study or in the decision to submit the study for publication.

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.

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doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.12.021

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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