Psychiatrists and primary caring: What are our boundaries of responsibility?

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 600-602

  Dixon, Lisa B ^a,b   Adler, David A ^a   Berlant, Jeffrey L ^a   Dulit, Rebecca A ^a   Goldman, Beth ^a   Hackman, Ann L ^a   Oslin, David W ^a   Siris, Samuel G ^a   Sonis, William A ^a   Valenstein, Marcia ^a  

^a Committee on Psychopathology of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

DEPRESSION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESPONSIBILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT SURVEY;

HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PSYCHIATRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249744407     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.58.5.600     Document Type: Short Survey

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