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DEARSIRS It seems increasingly likely that a major land battle will soon be fought in the Middle East
The Army has deployed the majority of its uniformed psychiatric personnel to the war zone where they will principally treat acute stress reactions according to the prin ciples of forward psychiatry (Richardson, 1978)
We compared our results with a prospective study from a lithium clinic by Vestergaard & Schou (1988)
Summary
Our patients had one episode of illness every 2.1 years before but every 4.6 years on lithium treatment. This translated into 0.74 episodes before and 0.21 episodes during lithium treatment per year, which was a highly significant reduction (P< 0.001). Their patients had one episode of illness every 2.3 years before lithium but further data are unavailable. Seventy-six per cent of on Northallerton (0609) 779911 extension 3927/ patients took lithium at night only, 13% twice daily, 6% in the morning, 4% three times, and 1% four
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