Old age psychiatry and geriatric medicine: Shared challenges, shared solutions?
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Old age psychiatry and geriatric medicine admissions and elderly suicide rates in England.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.116.187369