Post-combat syndromes from the boer war to the Gulf war: A cluster analysis of their nature and attribution

British Medical Journal

Volumn 324, Issue 7333, 2002, Pages 321-324

  Jones, Edgar ^a   Hodgins Vermaas, Robert ^a   McCartney, Helen ^b   Everitt, Brian ^b   Beech, Charlotte ^a   Poynter, Denise ^a   Palmer, Ian ^c   Hyams, Kenneth ^d   Wessely, Simon ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Royal Defence Medical College   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; OLIGOPHRENIA; PENSION; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; SYMPTOM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 0037045547     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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