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Optimising the diagnostic performance of the Geriatric Depression Scale

✍ Scribed by María Izal; Ignacio Montorio; Roberto Nuevo; Gema Pérez-Rojo; Isabel Cabrera

Book ID: 116849807
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 243 KB
Volume: 178
Category: Article
ISSN: 0165-1781
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.02.018

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