Interinformant reliability of family history information on psychiatric disorders in relatives
✍ Scribed by R. Heun; H. Müller
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 248
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-8491
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