Editorial: Decision making by patients: Who gains?

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-6

  Bhugra, Dinesh ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANAMNESIS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMORBIDITY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

DECISION MAKING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

EID: 37849009046     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764007083942     Document Type: Editorial

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