Cardiac arrest and ventricular arrhythmia in patients taking antipsychotic drugs: cohort study using administrative data.

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Published in BMJ on November 09, 2002

Authors

Sean Hennessy1, Warren B Bilker, Jill S Knauss, David J Margolis, Stephen E Kimmel, Robert F Reynolds, Dale B Glasser, Mary F Morrison, Brian L Strom

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. shenness@cceb.med.upenn.edu

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