Acute post stroke depression at a Primary Stroke Center in the Middle East.

OBJECTIVE:Depression occurs in approximately 30 percent of stroke patients, leading to increased disability, lower quality of life and increased mortality. Given new recommendations to assess depression in acute stroke patients this study evaluated rates of acute post stroke depression at a Primary...

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Main Authors: Stacy Schantz Wilkins, Naveed Akhtar, Abdul Salam, Paula Bourke, Sujatha Joseph, Mark Santos, Ashfaq Shuaib
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208708