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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1975) 126: 462-463. doi: 10.1192/bjp.126.5.462
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Accidents and Drug Treatment in a Psychiatric Hospital

BRIAN R. BALLINGER M.A., B.M., M.R.C.P.(ED.), M.R.C.Psych.1 and ANNA C. RAMSAY 2

1 Consultant Psychiatrist, Drug Monitoring Unit, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Liff by Dundee, DD2 5NF, Scotland
2 Charge Nurse, Drug Monitoring Unit, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Liff by Dundee, DD2 5NF, Scotland

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.

Submitted on July 19, 1974




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