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Assessing the physical health of psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Maw-Pin Tan
Affiliation:
Derby City General Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby DE22 3NE
David G. Tombs*
Affiliation:
Derby City General Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby DE22 3NE
*
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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