Adverse drug events and medication errors in psychiatry: methodological issues regarding identification and classification.

Klaus Mann; Jeffrey M. Rothschild; Carol Keohane; James A. Chu; David W. Bates

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Adverse drug events and medication errors in psychiatry: methodological issues regarding identification and classification.

March 26, 2008

Mann K, Rothschild JM, Keohane C, et al. World J Biol Psychiatry. 2008;9(1):24-33.

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This review addresses the challenges inherent in applying standard models of classifying adverse drug events to psychiatric patient populations.

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