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Measuring outcomes in clinical trials of stroke: time for state-of-the-art clinical trials to reject state-of-the-ark rating scales

A Short Commentary to Uyttenboogaart et al., “Measuring disability in stroke: relationship between the modified Rankin scale and the Barthel index” in J Neurol (2007) 254:1113–1117

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Hobart, J. Measuring outcomes in clinical trials of stroke: time for state-of-the-art clinical trials to reject state-of-the-ark rating scales. J Neurol 254, 1119 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-007-0535-6

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