Placebo Response in Drug Trails in Psychiatry
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Drug Prescriptions in Psychiatry
One of the important tasks for psychiatrists is to provide treatment of psychiatric disorders mainly with the use of pharmaceutical agents besides other modalities of treatment. Drug prescription patterns in psychiatry practice often arouse interest in research circles. They have also attracted attention from ethical point of view. The important things in prescribing drugs to psychiatric patien...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0253-7176,0975-1564
DOI: 10.1177/0975156420050603