Primary care psychiatry is not specialist psychiatry in general practice

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 171-173

  Hickie, Ian B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b St George Hospital and Community Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0033558134     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb127716.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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