Cyclical variation in psychotropic drug prescription
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 35 (2) , 136-138
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.35.2.136
Abstract
In this study it is shown that drug prescription is subject to cyclical variation throughout the year, but that the patterns of variation for different types of drug are different. Some of the reasons for, and the implications of, this finding are discussed.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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