Rating chronic medical illness burden in geropsychiatric practice and research: Application of the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 237-248

  Miller, Mark D ^a   Paradis, Cynthia F ^a   Houck, Patricia R ^a   Mazumdar, Sati ^a   Stack, Jacqueline A ^a   Rifai, A Hind ^a   Mulsant, Benoit ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Depression; elderly; medical illness; reliability

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SICK ROLE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026509066     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1781(92)90005-N     Document Type: Article

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