Drug-induced Akathisia - a Preliminary Report
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چکیده
25 in-patients, 17 males and 8 females, were administered Barnes' Scale for drug-induced Akathisia. Akathisia was found in 7 of them, 5 males and 2 females. One had pseudoakathisia and in the other, akathisia was questionable. The inter-rater reliability, assessed by weighted Cohen's kappa, was found to be high.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 34 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992