Differential therapeutics and the impaired physician: Patient-Treatment Matching by Specificity and Intensity

Journal of Addictive Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-107

  McGovern, Mark P ^a,b   Angres, Daniel H ^a   Leon, Scott ^a,b  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARIANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0031971077     PISSN: 10550887     EISSN: 15450848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J069v17n02_07     Document Type: Article

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