Psychotropic prescriptions and elderly suicide rates

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 236-244

  Lodhi, Lubbaba Mahmood ^a   Shah, Ajit ^a,b  

^a WEST LONDON MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 8444225846     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.44.3.236     Document Type: Article

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