Does debriefing after psychological trauma work? - Time for randomised controlled trials

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 65-67

  Raphael, B ^a   Meldrum, L ^a   McFarlane, A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CRISIS INTERVENTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CRISIS INTERVENTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030116022     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-2302(96)90003-X     Document Type: Article

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