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Predicting posttraumatic distress in hospitalized trauma survivors with acute injuries.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Jun 2002
Zatzick Douglas F, Kang Sun-Mee, Müller Hans-Georg, Russo Joan E, Rivara Frederick P, Katon Wayne, Jurkovich Gregory J, Roy-Byrne Peter
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OBJECTIVE: Each year approximately 2.5 million Americans are hospitalized after sustaining traumatic physical injuries. Few investigations have comprehensively screened for posttraumatic symptomatic distress or identified predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in representative samples of surgical inpatients. METHOD: The subjects were 101 randomly selected survivors of motor vehicle crashes or...
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