[Guideline for behaviors problems in adults with intellectual disabilities]

Fabienne Giuliani1, Jacques Baudat1

  • 1Section de psychiatrie du développement mental, Département de psychiatrie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne.

Revue Medicale Suisse
|January 19, 2019
PubMed
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