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. 2017 Mar;34(Suppl 2):S14S-S19S.

Health Care Utilization of Veterans With Serious Mental Illness

Supria K Gill  1 , Gopin Saini  1 , Rona Margaret Relova  1 , Tina Lee  1 , Sarah Yasmin  1 , Lauren Drag  1
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Health Care Utilization of Veterans With Serious Mental Illness

Supria K Gill et al. Fed Pract. 2017 Mar.

Abstract

Outreach regarding veteran-specific factors can help determine which targeted interventions reduce the need for chronic mental illness inpatient hospitalization.

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Author disclosures The authors report no actual or potential conflicts of interest with regard to this article.

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