A prospective survey of neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a short-term psychiatric hospital
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 145 (4) , 517-518
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.4.517
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.Keywords
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