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Return-to-School Protocols Following a Concussion

Elizabeth Newlin and Stephen R. Hooper
North Carolina Medical Journal April 2015, 76 (2) 107-108; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.76.2.107
Elizabeth Newlin
Wake County Public Health school nurse; co-chair of the Children and Youth Committee, North Carolina Brain Injury Advisory Council, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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professor, associate dean, and chair, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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