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Are the current guidelines for referral to psychiatry correct?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2014

Melissa Gibney*
Affiliation:
St Brigid's Hospital, Ardee, Ireland
Macdara McCauley
Affiliation:
St Brigid's Hospital, Ardee, Ireland
*

Abstract

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Correspondence
Copyright
© College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2014 

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