The effect of antipsychotic drugs and non-drug therapy on borderline and psychotic mentally ill patient’s quality- adjusted life-years (QALY)
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Søren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, EU-MScCAM, Niels Jørgen Andersen, MSc, Isack Kandel, MA, PhD and Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine; Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Ariel, Israel; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Office of the Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States
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