Seventy-seven randomly selected elderly patients in a primary care internal medicine practice were assessed and rated by their internists for the presence and severity of depression. Management recommendations were recorded by internists in each case. On the same day, the patients were interviewed a
Integrated management of depression in the elderly
โ Scribed by Anthony Klugman; Sube Banerjee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 65 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.2315
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