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Case Reports
. 1988 Apr;145(4):517-8.
doi: 10.1176/ajp.145.4.517.

A prospective survey of neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a short-term psychiatric hospital

A J Gelenberg  1 , B Bellinghausen, J D Wojcik, W E Falk, G S Sachs
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A prospective survey of neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a short-term psychiatric hospital

A J Gelenberg et al. Am J Psychiatry. 1988 Apr.

Abstract

Of 1,470 patients treated with neuroleptics during 1 year at a private psychiatric hospital, only one patient developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome--an annual frequency of 0.07%. Use of low doses of neuroleptics may account for this frequency, which is below recent estimates.

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