Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 3 , Pages 179-183 , May 2000

Predictors of remission in DSM hypochondriasis

  • Arthur J. Barsky

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Arthur J. Barsky, M.D., Division of Psychiatry Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115.
    • From the Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston,USA
    • Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA,USA
    • ,
  • E. Duff Bailey

      Affiliations

    • From the Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston,USA
    • Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA,USA
    • ,
  • Jeanne M. Fama

      Affiliations

    • From the Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston,USA
    • Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA,USA
    • ,
  • David K. Ahern

      Affiliations

    • From the Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston,USA
    • Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA,USA

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 Supported by National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant No. MH-40487.

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
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