Psychological therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder and comorbid substance use disorder

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Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Roberts, Neil P ^a,b   Roberts, Pamela A ^b   Jones, Neil ^b   Bisson, Jonathan I ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF AND VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; ASCERTAINMENT BIAS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCINFO; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84962698842     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010204.pub2     Document Type: Review

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