Assessing Outcomes: Identifying Psychiatric Patients with Severe and Persistent Illness

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 559-564

  Goethe, John W ^a,b,c   Fischer, Edward H ^a   Dornelas, Ellen A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031217180     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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