General practitioners' self-perceived ability to recognize severity of common mental disorders: An underestimated factor in case identification?

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Olssøn, Ingrid ^a,e   Mykletun, Arnstein ^b,c   Dahl, Alv A ^d  

^a Department of Psychiatry   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REFERENCE VALUE; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARD;

EID: 33748664424     PISSN: 17450179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-0179-2-21     Document Type: Article

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