PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Muzina, David J.
AU  - Colangelo, Elisa
AU  - Manning, J. Sloan
AU  - Calabrese, Joseph R.
TI  - Differentiating bipolar disorder from depression in primary care
DP  - 2007 Feb 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 89--105
VI  - 74
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/2/89.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/2/89.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2007 Feb 01; 74
AB  - Because patients with bipolar disorder spend more time in the depressed phase than in the manic phase, many receive an incorrect diagnosis of unipolar major depression and receive inadequate or improper treatment for it, leading to a dramatically increased risk of morbidity and suicide. Greater diagnostic accuracy is needed.