Primary care practitioners are significant providers of mental health services to older Americans. The most common mental health service provided by primary care practitioners to this segment of the population is psychotropic drugs. A US national data base was analyzed to compare the psychotropic pr
Patient symptoms and physician prescribing patterns in the elderly
β Scribed by Bernard S. Linn; Margaret W. Linn
- Book ID
- 119157827
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 671 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
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