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Improving Mental Health Outcomes: Focus on Atypical Antipsychotics
Link ID 4444
Title Improving Mental Health Outcomes: Focus on Atypical Antipsychotics
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/8963?src=rss
Description Identify cardiovascular risk factors in patients with mental health disorders, and review the required monitoring criteria in patients taking atypical antipsychotic medications.
Category Articles > Family Medicine
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Date Apr 1, 2008
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