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Research Article

Review of studies on committed patients: Methodologic problems when determining the diagnostic profile

Henrik Day Poulsen H. D. Poulsen, M.D., Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8240 Risskov, Denmark; Accepted: 11 August 1998.
Pages 211-215 | Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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