ADHD assessment: About the fifty percent referred to a child specialist

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 793-794

  Cepeda, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCSB 1610 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; EDITORIAL; FAMILY MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIS INDEX; INTELLIGENCE TEST; KAUFMAN BRIEF INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING DISORDER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RATING SCALE; SCREENING; VINELAND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR SCALE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FAMILY PRACTICE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 33747190363     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000231252.92803.62     Document Type: Editorial

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