Home-Based Psychiatric Outpatient Care Through Videoconferencing for Depression: A Randomized Controlled Follow-Up Trial

JMIR Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Hungerbuehler, Ines ^a   Valiengo, Leandro ^a   Loch, Alexandre A ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^b   Gattaz, Wagner F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Psychiatric Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

depression; eHealth, videoconferencing; home care services; mental health; outpatient; psychiatry; telehealth; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020445010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23687959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mental.5675     Document Type: Article

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