Major depression in elderly medical inpatients in Greece, prevalence and identification

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-151

  Michopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Douzenis, Athanasios ^a   Goumellis, Rossetos ^a   Christodoulou, Christos ^a   Kalkavoura, Christina ^a   Michalopoulou, Panagiota G ^a   Fineti, Katerina ^a   Liakakos, Theodore ^a   Kanellakopoulou, Kyriaki ^a   Lykouras, Lefteris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Elderly inpatients; General hospital; Major depression; Underestimation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; GREECE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRY;

EID: 77953104858     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324788     Document Type: Article

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