Common somatic symptoms, causal attributions of somatic symptoms and psychiatric morbidity in a cross-sectional community study in Santiago, Chile
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Somatic Symptoms and Psychiatric Disorders
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Research Notes
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1756-0500
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-155