Use of health services, mental illness, and self-rated disability and health in medical inpatients

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 668-675

  Hansen, Morten Steen ^a   Fink, Per ^a   Frydenberg, Morten ^a   Oxhøj, Marie Louise ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Health service use; Medical inpatients; Mental illness; Psychological distress; Self rated health; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOMATIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0036073968     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000024104.87632.94     Document Type: Article

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