Psychological problems. How are they managed in general practice?
This article was written to answer questions raised by the Australian Morbidity and Treatment Survey (AMTS) which suggested that general practitioners are failing to diagnose and manage psychiatric illness. The article explains how the data should be interpreted, and what it tells us about the management of psychological problems in general practice in Australia.
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University of Sydney, Croydon, New South Wales.
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