JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 5 , Pages 318-321 , June 2007

Depression and Mortality in Elders Referred for Geriatric Psychiatry Consultation

This paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, March 10-13, 2006, Puerto Rico.

  • Donald R. Royall, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
    • Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
    • Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
    • South Texas Veterans Audie L. Murphy Division Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) San Antonio, TX.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Donald R. Royall, MD, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229.
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  • Jason E. Schillerstrom, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
    • ,
  • Paul K. Piper, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
    • ,
  • Laura K. Chiodo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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 This work was supported by the Julia and Vann Buren Parr Professorship in Psychiatry Endowment, San Antonio, TX. There are no conflicts of interest.

PII: S1525-8610(06)00606-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.12.018

JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 5 , Pages 318-321 , June 2007

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