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Research Article

Psychiatric caseness is a marker of major depressive episode in general practice

Søren Dinesen Østergaard Unit for Psychiatric Research, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
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Leslie Foldager Centre for Psychiatric Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark; Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Christer Allgulander Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Alv A. Dahl Department of Clinical Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway; Faculty Division, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Marja-Terttu Huuhtanen Kuopio Work Assessment Clinic of the Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disorders, Kuopio, Finland
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Ib Rasmussen Unit for Psychiatric Research, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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Povl Munk-Jørgensen Unit for Psychiatric Research, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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Pages 211-215 | Received 01 Dec 2009, Accepted 09 Jun 2010, Published online: 13 Jul 2010

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