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Are the current guidelines for referral to psychiatry correct?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2014

Melissa Gibney  and
Macdara McCauley
Melissa Gibney*
Affiliation:
St Brigid's Hospital, Ardee, Ireland
Macdara McCauley
Affiliation:
St Brigid's Hospital, Ardee, Ireland
*
(Email: megibney@gmail.com)
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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 131 - 132
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© College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2014 

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