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Psychiatric Units in general hospitals. Problems and perspectives in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2011

Giovanni De Girolamo  and
Michele Tansella
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 85 - 90
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