Assessment of diazepam loading dose therapy of delirium tremens

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 273-278

  Wasilewski, Dariusz ^a   Matsumoto, Halina ^a   Kur, Ewa ^a   Dziklińska, Anna ^a   Woźny, Elzbieta ^a   Stencka, Krystyna ^a   Skalski, Michał ^a   Chaba, Piotr ^a   Szelenberger, Waldemar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CLOMETHIAZOLE; DIAZEPAM; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROXYZINE; OXAZEPAM; PERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0029922676     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008147     Document Type: Article

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