Transforming the Psychiatric Inpatient Unit from Short-term Pseudo-asylum Care to State-of-the-art Treatment Setting

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Journal Psychiatry (Edgmont)

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2009 Sep 4

PMID 19727261

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David Feifel

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