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Research Article

A comparison of depressive symptoms in elderly medical inpatients and the elderly in a population-based health study (the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study 3)

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Pages 189-197 | Accepted 12 Aug 2011, Published online: 29 Sep 2011

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