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Lithium monitoring in hospital and general practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ann Ryman
Ann Ryman*
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Tranwell Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
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A survey of the current practice of lithium monitoring in a general hospital and the general practices it serves revealed erratic and infrequent assessments of serum lithium levels and also of renal and thyroid function. General practitioners, who in this study monitor approximately a third of the patients on lithium, performed worse than psychiatrists, but in neither case was there cause for complacency.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 9 , September 1997 , pp. 570 - 572
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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