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Suffering in Silence: Reasons for Not Disclosing Depression in Primary Care

Robert A. Bell, Peter Franks, Paul R. Duberstein, Ronald M. Epstein, Mitchell D. Feldman, Erik Fernandez y Garcia and Richard L. Kravitz
The Annals of Family Medicine September 2011, 9 (5) 439-446; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1277
Robert A. Bell
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Peter Franks
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Paul R. Duberstein
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Ronald M. Epstein
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Mitchell D. Feldman
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vol. 9 no. 5 439-446
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1277
PubMed 
21911763

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication July 26, 2010
  • Revision received April 1, 2011
  • Accepted for publication April 19, 2011
  • Published online September 12, 2011.

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  1. Robert A. Bell, PhD⇓,
  2. Peter Franks, MD,
  3. Paul R. Duberstein, PhD,
  4. Ronald M. Epstein, MD,
  5. Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil,
  6. Erik Fernandez y Garcia, MD, MPH and
  7. Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH
  1. Departments of Communication and Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California (Bell); Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California (Bell, Franks, Fernandez y Garcia, Kravitz); Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, California (Franks); Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Duberstein); Rochester Center for the Improvement of Communication in Health Care, Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Division of Oncology and School of Nursing, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Epstein); Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California (Feldman); Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California (Fernandez y Garcia); Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California (Kravitz)
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Robert A. Bell, PhD, Department of Communication, One Shields Ave, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, rabell{at}ucdavis.edu

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