Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 198-204 , May 2003

Hispanic ethnicity, physician-patient communication, and antidepressant adherence

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual American Public Health Association meeting in Boston, MA, November 2000.

  • Betsy Sleath

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy, Beard Hall, CB #7360, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7360, USA
    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy and Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    • ,
  • Richard H Rubin

      Affiliations

    • University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA
    • ,
  • Sally A Huston

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, School of Pharmacy, Department of Social and Administrative Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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☆ Supported by the Bayer Institute for Health Communication and the National Institute of Mental Health (R29-MH56210).

PII: S0010-440X(03)00007-5

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00007-5

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 198-204 , May 2003

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