Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 380-386 , July 2008

Estimating the prevalence of borderline personality disorder in psychiatric outpatients using a two-phase procedure

  • Marilyn I. Korzekwa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Paul F. Dell

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Recovery Center, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
    • ,
  • Paul S. Links

      Affiliations

    • The Arthur Rotenberg Chair in Suicide Studies, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Lehana Thabane

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • Biostatistics Unit, Father Sean O’Sullivan Research Centre, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Steven P. Webb

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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 Earlier versions of this work were displayed as posters at the McMaster University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, 18th Annual Research Day, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, April 2006, and the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention annual conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 2006.

PII: S0010-440X(08)00027-8

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.01.007

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 380-386 , July 2008

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