One hundred patients referred to old age psychiatry services in the West Midlands and 25 patients referred to a memory clinic in Bristol with mild to moderate dementia were assessed using the GMSMAS schedule together with a detailed inventory to assess their psychotic symptoms. On careful evaluation
Depot antipsychotic medication in the management of behavioural and psychotic symptoms in dementia?
β Scribed by Robert Howard; Raymond Levy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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