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The effect of severity of depressive disorder on economic burden in a university hospital in Singapore

Roger CM Ho Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore. [email protected]; Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore. [email protected]
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Kwok-Kei Mak Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Anna NC Chua Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore; Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore
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Cyrus SH Ho Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore; Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore
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Anselm Mak Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore; Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074, Singapore
Pages 549-559 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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