A prospective survey of neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a short-term psychiatric hospital |
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| Authors: | A J Gelenberg B Bellinghausen J D Wojcik W E Falk G S Sachs |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. |
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| Abstract: | Of 1,470 patients treated with neuroleptics during 1 year at a private psychiatric hospital, only one patient developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome--an annual frequency of 0.07%. Use of low doses of neuroleptics may account for this frequency, which is below recent estimates. |
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