Pediatric traumatic brain injury and burn patients in the civil justice system: The prevalence and impact of psychiatric symptomatology

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 247-258

  Max, Jeffrey E ^a,b   Bowers, Wayne A ^a,b   Baldus, David ^a,b   Gaylor, Erika E ^a,c  

^a Division of Cardiac Anesthesia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; BRAIN INJURY; BURN; DISABILITY; HUMAN; JUSTICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; BURNS; CHILD; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 0031853985     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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