Introduction to the epidemiology of coercive measures in Spanish closed institutions
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Address: 1Department of Legal Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 2Department of Administrative Law, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, 3Psychiatric Penitentiary, Hospital of Foncalent, Alicante, Spain, 4Department of Internal Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 5Carlos Haya University Hospital, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain and 6Department of Legal Medicine, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain * Corresponding author
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دوره 7 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2007