Long-term psychiatric morbidity in the aftermath of CS spray trauma

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 98-104

  Nathan, Rajan ^a,b   Wood, Harry ^b   Rix, Keith ^b   Wright, Eric ^b  

^a Scott Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b Grange Consulting Rooms   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYLIDENE DERIVATIVE; 2 CHLOROBENZYLIDENEMALONONITRILE;

ADULT; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; LEGAL ASPECT; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; O-CHLOROBENZYLIDENEMALONITRILE; POLICE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0037948282     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.43.2.98     Document Type: Article

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