How can clinicians help patients to take their psychotropic medication? Invited commentary on... Why don't patients take their medicine?

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 347-349

  Chaplin, Robert ^a  

^a OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPULSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG MONITORING; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT MONITORING; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 38549181471     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.107.003707     Document Type: Article

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