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Drug-induced long QT in adult psychiatric inpatients: the 5-year cross-sectional ECG Screening Outcome in Psychiatry study

Published inThe American journal of psychiatry, vol. 170, no. 12, p. 1468-1476
Publication date2013
Abstract

The authors aimed to determine the prevalence of drug-induced long QT at admission to a public psychiatric hospital and to document the associated factors using a cross-sectional approach.

Keywords
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antipsychotic Agents/adverse effects
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Citalopram/adverse effects
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac/epidemiology
  • Electrocardiography/drug effects
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Inpatients/psychology
  • Long QT Syndrome/chemically induced/complications/epidemiology
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders/complications/drug therapy
  • Methadone/adverse effects
  • Middle Aged
  • Prevalence
  • Risk Factors
  • Switzerland/epidemiology
  • Torsades de Pointes/chemically induced/epidemiology
Citation (ISO format)
GIRARDIN, François et al. Drug-induced long QT in adult psychiatric inpatients: the 5-year cross-sectional ECG Screening Outcome in Psychiatry study. In: The American journal of psychiatry, 2013, vol. 170, n° 12, p. 1468–1476. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12060860
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