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Estimated costs of neurotic disorder in UK general practice 19851

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

C. Croft-Jeffreys  and
G. Wilkinson
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , August 1989 , pp. 549 - 558
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