Psychotropic drugs: another survey of prescribing patterns
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (3) , 298-302
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.144.3.298
Abstract
The psychotropic drug treatment of 220 patients were studied compared with those of the only previous hospital survey which showed much allegedly inappropriate prescribing. Using simple classifications of the patients'' diagnoses and of the drugs prescribed, 30% of the prescriptions appeared inappropriate in the absence of knowledge of the patients'' symptoms. Only 2 of 460 prescriptions were inappropriate.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A survey of prescribing psychotropic drugs in two psychiatric hospitals.The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1981