Why evidence-based medicine can, and must, be applied to psychiatry

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Ghaemi, S Nassir ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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