Psychiatric Aspects of Personal Injury Claims
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The demographic and psychiatric characteristics of 110 personal injury litigants.
One hundred ten litigants who were suing for emotional damages were assessed by the author for medical-legal reasons. Most of the plaintiffs were involved in motor vehicle accidents and suffered from "whiplash" injuries. Semi-structured interviews were used to reach criteria based on DSM-III-R diagnoses. Requests for consultation, on average, came 25 months after the patient's accident. Approxi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.51.12.1603-a