Shell shock: An outcome study of a First World War 'PIE' unit

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-223

  Jones, Edgar ^a   Thomas, Adam ^a   Ironside, Stephen ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FORWARD PSYCHIATRY; FRANCE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY SERVICE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRY; RELAPSE; SHELL SHOCK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WAR;

FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD WAR I; WORLD WAR II; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846546534     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706009329     Document Type: Article

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