Medicating grief with benzodiazepines: Physician and patient perspectives [1]

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2006-2007

  Cook, Joan M ^a   Biyanova, Tatyana ^b   Marshall, Randall ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO;

BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG USE; GRIEF; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION;

BENZODIAZEPINES; BEREAVEMENT; HUMANS; OVERDOSE;

EID: 35349021038     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.18.2006     Document Type: Letter

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