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Diagnostic complexity and depression: time to allow for uncertainty1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

P. G. Surtees ,
N. W. J. Wainwright  and
W. R. Gilks
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , November 1996 , pp. 1105 - 1110
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