The everyday experience of living with and managing a neurological condition (the LINC study): study design.

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Published in BMC Neurol on March 21, 2013

Authors

Joan Versnel1, Tanya Packer, Lori E Weeks, Jocelyn Brown, Marshall Godwin, Susan Hutchinson, George Kephart, Diane MacKenzie, Kerstin Roger, Robin Stadnyk, Michelle Villeneuve, Grace Warner

Author Affiliations

1: School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University, 5869 University Avenue, 215 Forrest Building, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada. jversnel@dal.ca

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