Clinical outcome to clozapine treatment in chronic psychiatric inpatients

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-14

  Advokat, Claire D ^a   Bertman, Lisa Jo ^a   Comaty Jr , Joseph E ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Behavior Therapy Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical antipsychotics; Biological psychiatry; Clozapine; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CLOZAPINE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033020501     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(98)00087-6     Document Type: Article

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