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WHO disability grading: operational definitions

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J.W. Brandsma, W.H. van Brakel

A ‘disability classification’ for use in leprosy has been advocated by who since 1960. Two revisions of this grading system were subsequently published, a 4-point scale in 1970 and a 3-point scale in 1988.

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