Evaluating patients with intellectual disabilities and comorbid mental health problems

Psychiatric Annals

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 214-220

  Summers, Jane ^a,b   Boyd, Kerry ^a   Morgan, Jane ^a,b  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DELIRIUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK; SEIZURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 2042440399     PISSN: 00485713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0048-5713-20040301-10     Document Type: Review

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