Persons with dual diagnoses of substance abuse and major mental illness: Their excess costs of psychiatric care

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 973-977

  Dickey, Barbara ^a,b   Azeni, Hocine ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MEDICAID; MEDICAL SERVICE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT CARE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 0029901962     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.86.7.973     Document Type: Article

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