Altman H, Evenson R C, Sletten I W, Cho D W
Missiouri Institute of Psychiatry, University of Missouri Scool of Medicine, St. Louis 63139, USA.
Dis Nerv Syst. 1974 Nov;35(11):505-8.
A previous study on assignment of four major categories of psychotropic drugs to psychiatric inpatients generated the hypothesis that patients assigned minor tranquilizers consisted of two distinct sub-groups, one of which consisted of diagnosed alcoholics. The present study confirmed that hypothesis. More importantly, it found that minor tranquilizer assignment to non-alcoholic inpatients was a virtually random procedure. The general ability of predicting psychotropic drug assignment via a statistical model was nevertheless supported.
先前一项关于将四类主要精神药物分配给精神科住院患者的研究提出了一个假设，即被分配使用小剂量镇静剂的患者由两个不同的亚组组成，其中一个亚组由已确诊的酗酒者组成。本研究证实了这一假设。更重要的是，研究发现将小剂量镇静剂分配给非酗酒住院患者实际上是一个随机过程。然而，通过统计模型预测精神药物分配的总体能力得到了支持。
