Safe and informed prescribing of psychotropic medication during the COVID-19 pandemic

Treatment with psychotropic medication may sometimes be jeopardised because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One underlying reason is the lack of COVID-19-specific psychopharmacology guidelines. Here, we discuss five considerations arising from our clinical experience and pharmacological background knowled...

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Autores principales: Luykx, Jurjen J., van Veen, Sisco M. P., Risselada, Arne, Naarding, Paul, Tijdink, Joeri K., Vinkers, Christiaan H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32362299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.92
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author Luykx, Jurjen J.
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Vinkers, Christiaan H.
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description Treatment with psychotropic medication may sometimes be jeopardised because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One underlying reason is the lack of COVID-19-specific psychopharmacology guidelines. Here, we discuss five considerations arising from our clinical experience and pharmacological background knowledge to enable safe and well-informed psychopharmacotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-72485822020-05-26 Safe and informed prescribing of psychotropic medication during the COVID-19 pandemic Luykx, Jurjen J. van Veen, Sisco M. P. Risselada, Arne Naarding, Paul Tijdink, Joeri K. Vinkers, Christiaan H. Br J Psychiatry Editorial Treatment with psychotropic medication may sometimes be jeopardised because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One underlying reason is the lack of COVID-19-specific psychopharmacology guidelines. Here, we discuss five considerations arising from our clinical experience and pharmacological background knowledge to enable safe and well-informed psychopharmacotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7248582/ /pubmed/32362299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.92 Text en © The Authors 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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