Overdose rates in lithium‐treated versus antidepressant‐treated outpatients
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 90 (1) , 50-52
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1994.tb01555.x
Abstract
Our clinical experience that lithium is an agent used infrequently for self‐poisoning was investigated. The rate at which such overdoses occurred was determined from hospital records. A retrospective casenotes study then compared overdose rates in patients taking lithium versus patients on antidepressant medication. A low rate of lithium overdoses was identified, and this appeared to be due to patients on lithium rarely taking overdoses rather than their choice of agent.Keywords
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