RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Differentiating bipolar disorder from depression in primary care
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 89
OP 105
VO 74
IS 2
A1 Muzina, David J.
A1 Colangelo, Elisa
A1 Manning, J. Sloan
A1 Calabrese, Joseph R.
YR 2007
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/2/89.abstract
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.