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Executive control function: a clinically practical assessment.

Lisa Barrington·Patricia S Yoder-Wise
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Intact executive control function is emerging as a determinant of functional status and independent living. Multiple causes of impaired executive control function including subclinical impairments exist. Integration of bedside executive control function assessment into routine nursing assessment and documentation provides a quantitative measure of an individual's ability to provide self-care.

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Lisa Barrington, Patricia S Yoder-Wise. 2006. Executive control function: a clinically practical assessment.. https://doi.org/10.3928/0098-9134-20060201-08

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