Making fewer depression diagnoses: Beneficial for patients?

Mental Health in Family Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-165

  Lucassen, Peter ^a   Van Rijswijk, Eric ^a   Van Weel Baumgarten, Evelyn ^a   Dowrick, Christopher ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Communication; Major depression; Patients' view

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

DEPRESSION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 70349774497     PISSN: 1756834X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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