Understanding associations between serious mental illness and hepatitis C virus among veterans: A national multivariate analysis

Psychosomatics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-37

  Himelhoch, Seth ^a,b   McCarthy, John F ^c,d   Ganoczy, Dara ^c   Medoff, Deborah ^a,b   Kilbourne, Amy ^c,d   Goldberg, Richard ^a,b   Dixon, Lisa ^a,b   Blow, Frederic C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c Veterans Affairs Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VETERAN;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 61849085819     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.50.1.30     Document Type: Article

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