COVID‐19 infection and psychotropics
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Between 20% and 70% of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) have psychiatric symptoms, such as agitation, anxiety, delirium, necessitating the need for pharmacological treatment. With antipsychotics commonly used to manage behavioral there is a high potential drug-drug interaction many medications treat COVID-19. Investigators recently conducted systematic evidence-based review interactions between these drugs in
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عنوان ژورنال: The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1608-5308', '1068-5308', '1556-7532']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pu.30753