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Wright, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center at
Citation Wright, J. (2000). The
Functional Assessment Measure. The Center for Outcome
Measurement in Brain Injury. http://www.tbims.org/
combi/FAM ( accessed
).*
*Note:
This citation is for the COMBI web material. Mr. Wright is
not the scale author for the FAM.
FAM
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