Evaluating and improving the appropriateness of treatment for schizophrenia

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 114-118

  Young, Alexander S ^a  

^a West Los Angeles Healthcare Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AKATHISIA; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PARKINSONISM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEDATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0032886373     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hrp/7.2.114     Document Type: Article

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