Autor: |
J. Etherington, B. R. Ballinger, G. W. Fenton, L. C. Sheppard |
Rok vydání: |
2010 |
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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. |
Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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