Treatment Outcomes for Severely Mentally Ill Patients on Conditional Discharge to Community-Based Treatment
The Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseasePublished 1 June 1997
Christopher O’Keefe, Daniel Potenza, Kim T. Mueser
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O'Keefe, Christopher M.A.; Potenza, Daniel P. M.D.; Mueser, Kim T. Ph.D. Author Information
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