The Essential Role of Home- and Community-Based Physical Therapists During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal Phys Ther

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2020 Apr 18

PMID 32302404

Citations 35

Authors

Jason R Falvey

Cindy Krafft

Diana Kornetti

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