Symptom-triggered versus standard chlormethiazole treatment of inpatient alcohol withdrawal: Clinical implications from a chart analysis

European Addiction Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Lange Asschenfeldt, Christian ^a   Müller, Matthias J ^a   Szegedi, Armin ^a   Anghelescu, Ion ^a   Klawe, Christoph ^a   Wetzel, Hermann ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Chlormethiazole; Substance withdrawal syndrome; Therapy

Indexed keywords

CLOMETHIAZOLE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; SEIZURE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHLORMETHIAZOLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037259240     PISSN: 10226877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067729     Document Type: Article

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