Specialty training and the personal use of benzodiazepines by physicians affect their proneness to prescribe tranquilizers

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 42-47

  Linden, M ^a   Gothe, H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; TRANQUILIZER;

ARTICLE; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG USE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 0031920356     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-979297     Document Type: Article

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