Rethinking Medication Prescribing Practices in an Inner-City Hispanic Mental Health Clinic

Journal of Psychiatric Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 134-140

  Opler, Lewis A ^a,f   Ramirez, Paul Michael ^b   Dominguez, Lourdes M ^c   Fox, Michelle S ^d   Johnson, Patrick D ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^d Bronx Psychiatric Center   (United States)

^e DOWLING COLLEGE   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akathisia; Antipsychotics; Ataques de nervios; Compliance; Culture; Hallucinations; Hispanics; Nerviosismo

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; ARIPIPRAZOLE; BENZATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; FLUPHENAZINE; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; TRANQUILIZER; ZIPRASIDONE;

AKATHISIA; AMENORRHEA; BREAST TENDERNESS; CITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DYSTONIA; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FOOD DRUG INTERACTION; GYNECOMASTIA; HALLUCINATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; LACTATION; LIBIDO DISORDER; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSIS; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOMATIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 1642464961     PISSN: 15274160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00131746-200403000-00009     Document Type: Review

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