Gender and injuries predict stimulant medication use

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 253-259

  Dalsgaard, Søren ^a,b,c   Leckman, James F ^d   Nielsen, Helena Skyt ^a   Simonsen, Marianne ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b H LUNDBECK A S   (Denmark)

^c Hospital of Telemark   (Norway)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; AGE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPLICATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FOLLOW UP; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84903161494     PISSN: 10445463     EISSN: 15578992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cap.2013.0101     Document Type: Article

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