Off-label use of antipsychotics: Rethinking "off-label"

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 350-353

  Groleger, Urban ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Antipsychotics; Indications; Off label; Recommendations

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; HALOPERIDOL; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PROMAZINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SULPIRIDE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGITATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR MANIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DEMENTIA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOW DRUG DOSE; MANIA; MEDLINE; MONOTHERAPY; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; OLIGOPHRENIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DRUG APPROVAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36448990842     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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