Cargando…
Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network
Early recognition, identification and treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can reduce detrimental outcomes and redirect their developmental trajectory. We aimed to describe variations in age of ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing among general practitioner...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BMJ Publishing Group
2019
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30765384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111133 |
_version_ | 1783441007678849024 |
---|---|
author | Hoang, Uy James, Anthony C Liyanage, Harshana Jones, Simon Joy, Mark Blair, Mitch Rigby, Michael de Lusignan, Simon |
author_facet | Hoang, Uy James, Anthony C Liyanage, Harshana Jones, Simon Joy, Mark Blair, Mitch Rigby, Michael de Lusignan, Simon |
author_sort | Hoang, Uy |
collection | PubMed |
description | Early recognition, identification and treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can reduce detrimental outcomes and redirect their developmental trajectory. We aimed to describe variations in age of ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing among general practitioner practices in a nationwide network and identify child, parental, household and general practice factors that might account for these variations. Cross-sectional study of children aged under 19 years registered within a general practice in the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) network in 2016, RCGP RSC has a household key allowing parent and child details to be linked. Data from 158 general practices and 353 774 children under 19 were included. The mean age of first ADHD diagnosis was 10.5 years (95% CI 10.1 to 10.9, median 10, IQR 9.0–11.9) and the mean percentage of children with ADHD prescribed stimulant medications among RCGP RSC practices was 41.2% (95% CI 38.7 to 43.6). There was wide inter-practice variation in the prevalence of diagnosis of ADHD, the age of diagnosis and stimulant prescribing. ADHD diagnosis is more likely to be made later in households with a greater number of children and with a larger age difference between adults and children. Stimulant prescribing for children with ADHD was higher in less deprived practices. Older parents and families with more children fail to recognise ADHD and may need more support. Practices in areas of higher socio-economic status are associated with greater prescribing of stimulants for children with ADHD. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6678046 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2019 |
publisher | BMJ Publishing Group |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-66780462019-08-16 Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network Hoang, Uy James, Anthony C Liyanage, Harshana Jones, Simon Joy, Mark Blair, Mitch Rigby, Michael de Lusignan, Simon BMJ Evid Based Med Original EBM Research Early recognition, identification and treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can reduce detrimental outcomes and redirect their developmental trajectory. We aimed to describe variations in age of ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing among general practitioner practices in a nationwide network and identify child, parental, household and general practice factors that might account for these variations. Cross-sectional study of children aged under 19 years registered within a general practice in the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) network in 2016, RCGP RSC has a household key allowing parent and child details to be linked. Data from 158 general practices and 353 774 children under 19 were included. The mean age of first ADHD diagnosis was 10.5 years (95% CI 10.1 to 10.9, median 10, IQR 9.0–11.9) and the mean percentage of children with ADHD prescribed stimulant medications among RCGP RSC practices was 41.2% (95% CI 38.7 to 43.6). There was wide inter-practice variation in the prevalence of diagnosis of ADHD, the age of diagnosis and stimulant prescribing. ADHD diagnosis is more likely to be made later in households with a greater number of children and with a larger age difference between adults and children. Stimulant prescribing for children with ADHD was higher in less deprived practices. Older parents and families with more children fail to recognise ADHD and may need more support. Practices in areas of higher socio-economic status are associated with greater prescribing of stimulants for children with ADHD. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-08 2019-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6678046/ /pubmed/30765384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111133 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original EBM Research Hoang, Uy James, Anthony C Liyanage, Harshana Jones, Simon Joy, Mark Blair, Mitch Rigby, Michael de Lusignan, Simon Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network |
title | Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network |
title_full | Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network |
title_fullStr | Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network |
title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network |
title_short | Determinants of inter-practice variation in ADHD diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network |
title_sort | determinants of inter-practice variation in adhd diagnosis and stimulant prescribing: cross-sectional database study of a national surveillance network |
topic | Original EBM Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30765384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111133 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT hoanguy determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork AT jamesanthonyc determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork AT liyanageharshana determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork AT jonessimon determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork AT joymark determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork AT blairmitch determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork AT rigbymichael determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork AT delusignansimon determinantsofinterpracticevariationinadhddiagnosisandstimulantprescribingcrosssectionaldatabasestudyofanationalsurveillancenetwork |