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Cognitive appraisal accuracy moderates the relationship between injury severity and psychosocial outcomes in

R B Kervick1, K L Kaemingk

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson 85724, USA. kervick@email.arizona.edu

Brain Injury
|October 26, 2005
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