Ethnicity, mortality, and severe mental illness
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Ethnicity and excess mortality in severe mental illness: a cohort study
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Psychiatry
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2215-0366
DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(17)30165-7