Contact Tamara
Bushnik , PhD, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center at
Citation Bushnik, T. (2000).
The Level of Cognitive Functioning Scale. The Center for
Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury. http://www.tbims.org/
combi/lcfs ( accessed
).*
*Note:
This citation is for the COMBI web material. Dr. Bushnik is
not the scale author for the LCFS.
LCFS
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