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Blood tests for patients prescribed psychotropics: what, when and why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Carol Paton  and
Dominic Beer
Dominic Beer
Affiliation:
Bexley Hospital Bexley, Kent DA5 2BW
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Although baseline blood tests are routinely checked on hospital admission when patients may be medication-free, it is frequently forgotten that psychotropic drugs can cause a wide range of abnormalities in such tests, some common and some very rare. These abnormalities, and the monitoring requirements associated with them are summarised in Table 1.

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Drug Information Quarterly
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , June 1996 , pp. 356 - 358
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996

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