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UK psychiatrists’ experience of withdrawal of antipsychotics prescribed for challenging behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism

BACKGROUND: A high proportion of adults with intellectual disabilities are prescribed off-licence antipsychotics in the absence of a psychiatric illness. The National Health Service in England launched an initiative in 2016, ‘Stopping over-medication of people with a learning disability [intellectua...

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Autores principales: Deb, Shoumitro, Nancarrow, Tom, Limbu, Bharati, Sheehan, Rory, Wilcock, Mike, Branford, David, Courtenay, Ken, Perera, Bhathika, Shankar, Rohit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7576649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32938512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.97