Concurrent psychiatric diagnoses by age and race among persons with bipolar disorder

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 931-933

  Kilbourne, Amy M ^a,b,g   Haas, Gretchen L ^b,c   Mulsant, Benoit H ^b,c   Bauer, Mark S ^d,e   Pincus, Harold A ^f  

^a Dept VA Pittsburgh Hlthcare Syst ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g Mailstop 151 C   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 3543067058     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.55.8.931     Document Type: Article

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