Screening for postnatal depression: Not a simple task

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-61

  Armstrong, Susan ^a   Small, Rhonda ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PARITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84947648696     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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