Depression in terminal illness: The need for primary care-specific research

Family Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 263-268

  Reeve, Joanne ^a   Lloyd Williams, Mari ^a   Dowrick, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Depression; Palliative care; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METASTASIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; DEPRESSION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 34547913778     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmm017     Document Type: Article

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