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Applicability of 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale to detect depression in elderly medical outpatients

✍ Scribed by Om Prakash; Laxmi Narayan Gupta; Veer Bhadur Singh; Girish Nagarajarao

Book ID
119185916
Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
108 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
1876-2018

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