Method The charts of patients aged 25 to 64 years with specific emotional complaints were
assessed through the 1975 complaint index of the department of family med-icine, University …

Methods The Family Medicine Centre houses the full-time teaching teams of the department
of family medicine of Queen's University. There were nine such teams operating during the …

WVITH THE INTRODUCTION of chlorpromazine into psychiatric therapy, a new type of drug
made its appearance in France in 1951.1 Originally thought to be simply another sedative …

The authors found that among 228 general hospital patients, minor tranquilizers were
prescribed most often and with the least justification and that major tranquilizers were …

In this issue of the Journal, articles by Baskerville and me (starting on page 1225) and
Anderson (page 1229) highlight the finding that women receive significantly more …

Conclusive evidence of improved outcome due to adjunctive anxiolytic therapy in some
somatic conditions is lacking. However, such therapy may facilitate patient management …

Examined the use of psychotropic drugs by family practice physicians by assessing 1,190
consecutive patients in 7 different family practices over a 7-mo period. Each practitioner …

Many of the milder emotional disturbances, especially those which manifest themselves by
vague physical symptoms, can be treated by physicians who are not psychiatrists. The …

PRIMARY responsibility for the treatment of psychiatric patients rests with the general
practitioner. Numerous studies of patients seen in general practice have revealed that one …

We examined the prescribing habits for psychotropic drugs of internists, surgeons, and
gynecologists on their inpatient wards in a teaching hospital. Data were gathered from …