General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 119-124 , March 2005

Mental illness and health care use: a study among new neurological patients

  • Morten Steen Hansen, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit for Functional Disorders, Psychosomatics and C-L Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +45 8949 4327; fax: +45 8949 4340.
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  • Per Fink, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Research Unit for Functional Disorders, Psychosomatics and C-L Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
    • ,
  • Lene Søndergaard, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Vejle County Hospital, DK-7100 Vejle, Denmark
    • ,
  • Morten Frydenberg, MSc., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Received 8 October 2003 ,Accepted 28 October 2004.

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PII: S0163-8343(04)00133-1

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.10.005

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 119-124 , March 2005

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