PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS IN A HOSPITAL FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: THE STORY OF 18 YEARS

Autor:	J. Etherington, B. R. Ballinger, G. W. Fenton, L. C. Sheppard
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Polypharmacy medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study Pediatrics business.industry Population medicine.disease Education Intellectual disability Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Psychiatry education business
Zdroj:	Mental Handicap Research. 8:184-193
ISSN:	0952-9608
Popis:	Psychotropic prescribing was surveyed over an 18-year period in an intellectual disability hospital between 1972 and 1990. The number of inpatients fell from 605 to 242 but the proportion receiving psychotropic drugs rose from 33% to 47% widi an increase in die percentage of the population receiving neuroleptics and lidiium. Polypharmacy applied to 29% of the patients receiving psychotropic drugs in 1990. The changes in prescribing may be partly related to the increased proportion of individuals with more severe psychiatric symptomatology in the population.
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