Mortality and postcombat disorders: U.K. veterans of the Boer War and World War I

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 414-418

  Jones, Edgar ^a   Vermaas, Robert Hodgins ^a   Beech, Charlotte ^a   Palmer, Ian ^a   Hyams, Kenneth ^a   Wessely, Simon ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISORDERED ACTION OF THE HEART; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEURASTHENIA; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PENSION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOLDIER; UNITED KINGDOM; WAR;

EID: 0037963216     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.5.414     Document Type: Article

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