title: Accidents and drug treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000374:Aggression; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000187:drug effects; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007024:Hypotension, Orthostatic / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000150:complications; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012606:Scotland; D012737:Sex Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs