Comorbidity patterns in routine psychiatric practice: is there evidence of underdetection and underdiagnosis?

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 258-264

  Wilk, Joshua E ^a   West, Joyce C ^a   Narrow, William E ^a   Marcus, Steve ^a   Rubio Stipec, Maritza ^a   Rae, Donald S ^a   Pincus, Harold A ^b   Regier, Darrel A ^a  

^a AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHOBIA; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIST; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744915251     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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