Contact Tamara Bushnik , PhD, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center at
Citation Bushnik, T. (2000). The Level of Cognitive Functioning Scale. The Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury. http://www.tbims.org/ combi/lcfs ( accessed
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*Note: This citation is for the COMBI web material. Dr. Bushnik is not the scale author for the LCFS.
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