Difficulties in acute psychiatric admissions
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Catatonia Incidence in Acute Psychiatric Admissions
Eighty six consecutively admitted unmedicated patients, with a current duration of illness of less than two years, who fulfilled ICD-10 criteria for mood disorder or schizophrenia were assessed for catatonic signs over a three week study period Thirty two of them could be rated as catatonic, most of them starting to exhibit the signs at the time of admission or a few days thereafter. While the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.19.2.116-a