Acute in-patient psychiatry: The right time for a new specialty?

Psychiatric Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 401-402

  Dratcu, Luiz ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHIATRY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 33750585815     PISSN: 09556036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/pb.30.11.401     Document Type: Editorial

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