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The MRC Needs for Care Assessment: progress and controversies1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

C. R. Brewin  and
J. K. Wing
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , November 1993 , pp. 837 - 841
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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