Psychiatric comorbidity: fact or artifact?

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-60

  van Loo, Hanna M ^a   Romeijn, Jan Willem ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Conventionalism; Disease classification; DSM; Psychiatric disorders

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY;

COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84925515516     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: 15731200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-015-9321-0     Document Type: Article

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