Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 11, Supplement , Pages S1-S2 , November 2009

Clinical Trials in Rehabilitation Research: Balancing Rigor and Relevance

  • Wayne A. Gordon, PhD, ABPP/Cn (Jack Nash Professor)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Wayne A. Gordon, PhD, ABPP/Cn, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine, Box 1240, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029

References 

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 The articles in this supplement are based on presentations that were made at the State of the Science Conference held by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Interventions entitled “Clinical trials in rehabilitation research: balancing rigor and relevance.” The conference was a precourse to the annual meeting of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and was held at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC, on October 3–4, 2007.

 Supported by the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (grant no. H133B040033), United States Department of Education, and the American Foundation of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neuroskills.

 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.

PII: S0003-9993(09)00683-2

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.08.138

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 11, Supplement , Pages S1-S2 , November 2009

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