Autopsy in elderly psychiatric inpatients: A retrospective review of autopsy findings of deceased elderly psychiatric inpatients in North Cheshire 1980-1996

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-27

  Salib, Emad ^a,b,d   Tadros, George ^c   Ambrose, Angela ^a  

^a Hollins Park Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Yardley Green Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033629522     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580240004000106     Document Type: Review

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