Anti-psychotic prescription pattern: A preliminary survey of Psychiatrists in India

Although anti-psychotic medications are available in India since a long time, little is known about the prescription patterns of Indian psychiatrists. An email survey was sent to 1100 psychiatrists, of which 168 responded. The three most commonly prescribed anti-psychotics were risperidone, olanzapi...

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Autores principales: Grover, Sandeep, Avasthi, Ajit
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Brief Research Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21180412
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.70982
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description Although anti-psychotic medications are available in India since a long time, little is known about the prescription patterns of Indian psychiatrists. An email survey was sent to 1100 psychiatrists, of which 168 responded. The three most commonly prescribed anti-psychotics were risperidone, olanzapine, and haloperidol. It was also found that typical anti-psychotics comprise of 25.15% (SD=21.66; range 0–100) of all prescriptions and in about 22.36% of the cases the psychiatrists were using more than one anti-psychotic in the same patient.
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spelling pubmed-29908272010-12-21 Anti-psychotic prescription pattern: A preliminary survey of Psychiatrists in India Grover, Sandeep Avasthi, Ajit Indian J Psychiatry Brief Research Communication Although anti-psychotic medications are available in India since a long time, little is known about the prescription patterns of Indian psychiatrists. An email survey was sent to 1100 psychiatrists, of which 168 responded. The three most commonly prescribed anti-psychotics were risperidone, olanzapine, and haloperidol. It was also found that typical anti-psychotics comprise of 25.15% (SD=21.66; range 0–100) of all prescriptions and in about 22.36% of the cases the psychiatrists were using more than one anti-psychotic in the same patient. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2990827/ /pubmed/21180412 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.70982 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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