Depressed Mood and Survival in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults
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- 23 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 158 (4) , 397-404
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.158.4.397
Abstract
SEVERAL INVESTIGATORS have found an association between depression and mortality.1-6 However, depression also has been shown to be strongly associated with poorer functional status1,7-13 and severity of illness.14-17 Whether a causal relationship exists between depression and mortality or whether depressive symptoms are mainly markers for unmeasured severity of illness is unclear.5This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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