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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
Published on: September 30, 2020
Need for reliability and validity assessment of the Japanese version of the duke activity status index
Hidekazu Ito1, Takahiro Tamura2, Kazuya Sobue2
1Department of Anesthesiology, Toyokawa City Hospital, 23 Noji, Yawata-Cho, Toyokawa, Aichi, 442-8561, Japan. oniheizo1745@gmail.com.
Journal of Anesthesia
|July 18, 2026
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