Effectiveness of antipsychotics: is the CATIE trial a tsunami?

Can Fam Physician

Department of Psychiatry, Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin, Hôpital Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, University of Montreal, Quebec.

Published: January 2007

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1952563PMC

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