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Falls in individuals with stroke during inpatient rehabilitation at a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

Sami Ullah, Mohammed K. Al-Atwi, Ahmad Z. Qureshi, Sherif S. Tantawy, Amara Ilyas and Colleen A. Wunderlich
Neurosciences Journal April 2019, 24 (2) 130-136; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2019.2.20180032
Sami Ullah
From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ullah, Al-Atwi, Qureshi, Tantawy), Rehabilitation Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ilyas), Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, and from the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation (Wunderlich), Department of Pediatrics, Palmetto Health Children Hospital, South Carolina, United States of America
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Mohammed K. Al-Atwi
From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ullah, Al-Atwi, Qureshi, Tantawy), Rehabilitation Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ilyas), Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, and from the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation (Wunderlich), Department of Pediatrics, Palmetto Health Children Hospital, South Carolina, United States of America
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Ahmad Z. Qureshi
From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ullah, Al-Atwi, Qureshi, Tantawy), Rehabilitation Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ilyas), Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, and from the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation (Wunderlich), Department of Pediatrics, Palmetto Health Children Hospital, South Carolina, United States of America
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Sherif S. Tantawy
From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ullah, Al-Atwi, Qureshi, Tantawy), Rehabilitation Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ilyas), Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, and from the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation (Wunderlich), Department of Pediatrics, Palmetto Health Children Hospital, South Carolina, United States of America
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Amara Ilyas
From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ullah, Al-Atwi, Qureshi, Tantawy), Rehabilitation Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ilyas), Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, and from the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation (Wunderlich), Department of Pediatrics, Palmetto Health Children Hospital, South Carolina, United States of America
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Colleen A. Wunderlich
From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ullah, Al-Atwi, Qureshi, Tantawy), Rehabilitation Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Ilyas), Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, and from the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation (Wunderlich), Department of Pediatrics, Palmetto Health Children Hospital, South Carolina, United States of America
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