作者
Naoki Hashimoto, Norio Yasui-Furukori, Naomi Hasegawa, Shuhei Ishikawa, Shusuke Numata, Hikaru Hori, Hitoshi Iida, Kayo Ichihashi, Ryuji Furihata, Atsunobu Murata, Takashi Tsuboi, Masahiro Takeshima, Yoshitaka Kyou, Hiroshi Komatsu, Chika Kubota, Shinichiro Ochi, Yoshikazu Takaesu, Masahide Usami, Tatsuya Nagasawa, Akitoyo Hishimoto, Kenichiro Miura, Junya Matsumoto, Kazutaka Ohi, Hisashi Yamada, Ken Inada, Koichiro Watanabe, Kazutaka Shimoda, Ryota Hashimoto
发表日期
2021/9/1
期刊
Asian Journal of Psychiatry
卷号
63
页码范围
102744
出版商
Elsevier Science BV
简介
Background
Monopharmacy with antipsychotics and antidepressants is the first-line treatment for schizophrenia and major depressive disorder (MDD) in most clinical guidelines, while polypharmacy with psychotropic agents in the treatment of schizophrenia is common in clinical practice. There are no detailed data on the prescription patterns for inpatients with mental illness with reliable diagnoses made by treating psychiatrists.
Methods
We gathered prescription data at discharge from 2177 patients with schizophrenia and 1238 patients with MDD from October 2016 to March 2018.
Results
The patients with schizophrenia aged between 60 and 79 were prescribed lower doses of antipsychotics and hypnotics/anxiolytics than those aged between 40 and 59. There were significant differences between the prescription rate of antipsychotics in the patients with schizophrenia and that of antidepressants in the patients with …
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