Hospital comorbidity bias and the concept of schizophrenia

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 817-821

  Bak, Maarten ^a   Drukker, Marjan ^a   van Os, Jim ^a,b   Delespaul, Philippe ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Admission; Dimension; Out patient; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIA; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 27744443462     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0971-0     Document Type: Article

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