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A study of the use of routine laboratory investigations in adult psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

K.P. Rao
Affiliation:
St Luke's Hospital Middlesbrough, Cleveland
R.S. Ramaiah
Affiliation:
Public Health Medicine, Walsall Health Authority, Walsall West Midlands
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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