Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 441-443 , May 2010

Refining Our Diagnostic System—Cake or Comorbid Bread and Fudge?

  • David C. Rettew, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to David Rettew, M.D. Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 1 South Prospect St., 364SJ3, Burlington, VT 05401

,Accepted 23 February 2010.

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 Disclosure: Dr. Rettew reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(10)00210-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2010.02.008

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 441-443 , May 2010

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