General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Page 113 , January 2010

Musculoskeletal pain and measures of depression: comment on the article by Poleshuck et al

Received 9 August 2009 ,Accepted 15 September 2009.

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PII: S0163-8343(09)00179-0

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2009.09.005

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Page 113 , January 2010