Demographics, clinical characteristics, and treatment of aggressive patients admitted to the acute behavioral unit of a community general hospital: A prospective observational study

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Nourse, Rosemary ^a   Reade, Cynthia ^a   Stoltzfus, Jill ^a   Mittal, Vikrant ^a  

^a St Luke's University Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; BENZATROPINE; BENZATROPINE MESILATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; CLOZAPINE; DIAZEPAM; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; HALOPERIDOL DECANOATE; HYDROXYZINE; HYDROXYZINE EMBONATE; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; LORAZEPAM; MIRTAZAPINE; OLANZAPINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PALIPERIDONE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE; TOPIRAMATE; TRLEPTAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DSM-IV; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MODIFIED OVERT AGGRESSION SCALE; PARANOIA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SUBSTANCE USE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84904259623     PISSN: 15235998     EISSN: 1555211X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.13m01589     Document Type: Article

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