Posttraumatic stress disorder among hospital surgical physicians exposed to victims of terror: A prospective, controlled questionnaire survey

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 890-896

  Weiniger, Carolyn F ^a   Shalev, Arieh Y ^a   Ofek, Hadas ^a   Freedman, Sara ^a   Weissman, Charles ^a   Einav, Sharon ^b,c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 33745918657     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.v67n0605     Document Type: Article

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