Monitoring Drugs in Hospitals for the Mentally Handicapped
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 142 (2), 163-165
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.142.2.163
Abstract
The systematic application of guidelines derived from the British National Formulary resulted in a substantial reduction of the amount and frequency of medication used in 2 hospitals for the mentally handicapped.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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