Mood stabilizer loading versus titration in acute mania: Audit of clinical practice

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 955-962

  Wheeler, Amanda ^a   Robinson, Gail ^b   Fraser, Allen ^c  

^a Waitakere Hospital   (New Zealand)

^b WAITEMATA DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^c Mental Health Services   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acute mania; Loading; Mood stabilizer

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; MOOD STABILIZER; VALPROIC ACID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BIPOLAR MANIA; BLURRED VISION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MENTAL PATIENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEW ZEALAND; NIGHT SWEAT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SOMNOLENCE; THIRST; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY FREQUENCY; XEROSTOMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VALPROIC ACID; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55049089438     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670802415400     Document Type: Article

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