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Inpatient care cost of schizophrenia in Ireland: underestimation due to non-inclusion on data on new long-stay patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Ajay Dixit*
Affiliation:
General Adult Psychiatry, Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
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*Correspondence Email: drajaydixit@yahoo.com
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Abstract

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