title: Lithium therapy in China. Brief communication.
abstract: A questionnaire survey among Chinese psychiatrists in June 1980 revealed that lithium treatment is being used in a little over half of the Chinese psychiatric hospitals, mainly for the treatment of mania and schizo-affective illness and only to a limited extent prophylactically. The relatively restricted use of lithium as yet many be due to infrequency of the diagnosis of mania, to fear of toxicity, and to lack of laboratory facilities for monitoring serum lithium levels
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D004363:Drug Utilization; D006801:Humans; D008094:Lithium / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D008094:Lithium