No effect of lunar cycle on psychiatric admissions or emergency evaluations

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1239-1242

  McLay, Robert N ^a   Daylo, Amado A ^b   Hammer, Paul S ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b US Naval Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MOOD DISORDER; MOON; PSYCHOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845592331     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.12.1239     Document Type: Article

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