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Preventive Health Care, 2005 Update: Screening for Depression in Primary Care

Prepared  by H.L. MacMillan, MD, MSc, FRCPC, C.J.S. Patterson, MD, MSc, FRCPC, C.N. Wathen, PhD, with the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

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