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Use of antipsychotics in elderly patients with dementia: Do atypical and conventional agents have a similar safety profile?

✍ Scribed by Gianluca Trifirò; Edoardo Spina; Giovanni Gambassi

Book ID: 119346581
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 246 KB
Volume: 59
Category: Article
ISSN: 1043-6618
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2008.09.017

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