Psychiatric disease burden profiles among veterans with epilepsy: The association with health services utilization

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 925-928

  Pugh, Mary Jo V ^a,b   Zeber, John E ^a,c   Copeland, Laurel A ^a,c   Tabares, Jeff V ^a   Cramer, Joyce A ^d  

^a SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOSIS; VETERAN;

EID: 50149093065     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2008.59.8.925     Document Type: Article

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