Depression in general hospital inpatients: challenges for consultation-liaison psychiatry
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Depression in general hospital inpatients: challenges for consultation-liaison psychiatry.
Dear Editor, Nearly one-fourth of medical and surgical inpatients in general hospitals match criteria for depressive disorders. The odds ratio for depression gets higher as the number of chronic diseases increases. Besides, such comorbidities aggravate one another. The Study of Brief Opportunity Intervention (EIBO, in the Portuguese acronym) performed a series of randomized clinical trials with...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1516-4446
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-44462011000300016