Decline in the diagnosis of schizophrenia in the last decades;Disminución de los diagnósticos de esquizofrenia en las últimas décadas

Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-113

  Iglesias Garcia C ^a  

^a Hospital ADARO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Administrative incidence; Epidemiology; Psychiatric case register; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; REGISTER; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; REGISTRIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPAIN; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0035286896     PISSN: 11399287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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