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Evaluating the outcome of first episodes of schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

J.L. Vázquez-Barquero ,
M.J. Cuesta  and
M. De La Varga
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , December 1994 , pp. 159 - 162
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