The Standardization of Diagnostic Criteria for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Implications for Research, Clinical Practice and Population Health
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Rural FASD diagnostic services model: Lakeland Centre for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
There are few FASD multi-disciplinary diagnostic teams in rural regions of Canada. Families often have difficulty accessing their services because of the lack of clinics available in Canada and the distance rural residents must travel to access one. Since its grass-roots beginning in 1995, the Lakeland Centre for FASD in north eastern Alberta has developed a community-based FASD diagnostic serv...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/0706743718777398