Recent trends in the incidence of anxiety diagnoses and symptoms in primary care

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Walters, Kate ^a   Rait, Greta ^a   Griffin, Mark ^a   Buszewicz, Marta ^a   Nazareth, Irwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PANIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84864568504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041670     Document Type: Article

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