An audit of first prescription of new patients attending a psychiatry walk-in-clinic in north India

Indian Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 319-325

  Grover, Sandeep ^a   Kumar, Vineet ^a   Avasthi, Ajit ^a   Kulhara, Parmanand ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

antidepressants; antipsychotic; benzodiazepines; mood stabilizers; Prescription; psychotropics

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMISULPRIDE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLONAZEPAM; CLOZAPINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUPHENAZINE DECANOATE; FLUVOXAMINE; HALOPERIDOL; HALOPERIDOL DECANOATE; IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; LORAZEPAM; MIRTAZAPINE; NITRAZEPAM; OLANZAPINE; PALIPERIDONE; PAROXETINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEPRESSION; DRUG CHOICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MANIA; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

EID: 84861869397     PISSN: 02537613     EISSN: 19983751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7613.96302     Document Type: Article

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