Psychotropic drug prescriptions in hospitalized elderly psychiatric patients: comparison with adult psychiatric patients
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Substance abuse in hospitalized psychiatric patients.
BACKGROUND The co-morbidity rate of illicit substance abuse and major mental problems in Israel is far from clear. OBJECTIVES To investigate the extent of drug abuse in a sample of psychiatric patients hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital and in the psychiatric department of a general hospital in Israel, to compare demographic and other background factors in dual-diagnosis patients with tho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychogeriatrics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1346-3500,1479-8301
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8301.2006.00150.x