CMAJ October 7, 2008; 179 (8). doi:10.1503/cmaj.080341.
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The effect of traumatic brain injury on the health of homeless people
Stephen W. Hwang, MD MPH,
Angela Colantonio, PhD OT Reg,
Shirley Chiu, MA,
George Tolomiczenko, PhD MPH,
Alex Kiss, PhD,
Laura Cowan, BScN,
Donald A. Redelmeier, MD MSHSR and
Wendy Levinson, MD
From the Centre for Research on Inner City Health (Hwang, Chiu), The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital; the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (Hwang, Redelmeier), Department of Psychiatry (Tolomiczenko) and the Department of Medicine (Levinson), University of Toronto; the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (Colantonio), University of Toronto; the Department of Research Design and Biostatistics (Kiss), Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Redelmeier), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada (Tolomiczenko); and the Street Health Community Nursing Foundation (Cowan), Toronto, Ont.

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Figure 2: Homeless participants (n = 461) who experienced a traumatic brain injury before or after becoming homeless.
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