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Liaison Psychiatry in General Hospitals
Rap id growth of general hospital psychiatr ic units all over the world has piovided impetus to consultation-liaison work ca r r ied out by the psychiatrists in the non-psychiatr ic depar tments of general hospitals . Liaison psychiatry has acquired the status of a subspeciality within psychiatry and its development has paral le led the shift of psychiatry from men ta l hospitals to general hos...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.15.2.109-b