Antipsychotics dosage and antiparkinsonian prescriptions
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Antipsychotics dosage and antiparkinsonian prescriptions
BACKGROUND To study the link between the dosage of several antipsychotics and the prescription of antiparkinsonians in an observational study. METHODS In the context of a national naturalistic prospective observational study, a database containing all the prescriptions from 100 French psychiatrists during the year 2002 was analysed. The inclusion criteria were a diagnosis of schizophrenia or ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1745-0179
DOI: 10.1186/1745-0179-3-14