Let's not talk about it: Suicide inquiry in primary care

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 412-418

  Feldman, Mitchell D ^a   Franks, Peter ^b,e   Duberstein, Paul R ^c   Vannoy, Steven ^c   Epstein, Ronald ^d   Kravitz, Richard L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment disorders; Antidepressants; Depression; Multilevel models; Office visits; Practice based research; Prevention; Primary care; Screening; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SUICIDE;

EID: 35148872658     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.719     Document Type: Article

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