Health care utilization and its costs for depressed veterans with and without comorbid PTSD symptoms

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1612-1617

  Chan, Domin ^a   Cheadle, Allen D ^b   Reiber, Gayle ^b,c   Unützer, Jürgen ^a   Chaney, Edmund F ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; DYSTHYMIA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VETERAN;

EID: 71549147852     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2009.60.12.1612     Document Type: Article

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