Comprehensive Psychiatry
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Heterogeneity among depressed outpatients considered to be in remission

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2006.10.005

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 113-117 , March 2007

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