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Accidents and Drug Treatment in a Psychiatric Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Brian R. Ballinger  and
Anna C. Ramsay
Brian R. Ballinger
Affiliation:
Drug Monitoring Unit, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Liff by Dundee, DD2 5NF, Scotland
Anna C. Ramsay
Affiliation:
Drug Monitoring Unit, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Liff by Dundee, DD2 5NF, Scotland
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Summary

A survey of 351 accidents occurring in a two-year period in a psychiatric hospital showed that 77 per cent of the accidents involved female patients and 48 per cent involved patients with organic psychoses; 236 accidents were falls and 280 occurred in the ward setting.

In 277 instances adequate controls were available. Seventy-five per cent of the accident patients had received a psychotropic drug on the day of the accident as opposed to 61 per cent of the controls. The possibility that the side-effects of psychotropic drugs may have contributed to some of these accidents is discussed.

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 5 , May 1975 , pp. 462 - 463
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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