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Review
. 2015 Nov 26:351:h6161.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.h6161.

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Jonathan I Bisson  1 , Sarah Cosgrove  2 , Catrin Lewis  2 , Neil P Robert  2
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Review

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Jonathan I Bisson et al. BMJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood the BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following: JB, CL, and NR have undertaken systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised controlled trials, and other research in the specialty of traumatic stress, some of which is referred to in the manuscript. JB, CL, and NR are members of a research team that developed a web based guided self help programme to treat PTSD. The programme is likely to be marketed in the future. Royalties will be payable to Cardiff University, with a proportion of these being shared with the research team in line with Cardiff University’s rules.

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Examples of the many different trajectories of PTSD symptoms after exposure to trauma
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