The London Survey of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units: service provision and operational characteristics of National Health Service units
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1742-6464,1742-2206
DOI: 10.1017/s1742646405000038