Australia: Missed Diagnosis Of Autism In An Australian Indigenous Psychiatric Population

Australia: Missed Diagnosis Of Autism In An Australian Indigenous Psychiatric Population Meera Roy Consultant in Learning Disability Psychiatry, and Sivasankaran Balaratnasingam Regional Psychiatrist, 2010   Objective: The aim of this paper is to review the diagnosis among adult Indigenous patients from the Kimberley region of Western Australia who had an existing diagnosis of schizophrenia. A visit from a psychiatrist specializing in intellectual disability provided the opportunity for...

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