Clozapine treatment of long-standing schizophrenia and serious violence: A two-year follow-up study of the first 50 patients treated with clozapine in Rampton high security hospital

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 168-178

  Dalal, Brian ^a   Larkin, Emmet ^b   Leese, Morven ^c   Taylor, Pamela J ^c  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Towers Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE;

ADULT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0032790715     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.304     Document Type: Article

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