Changes in the prescription patterns of psychotropic drugs for cancer patients during a 10‐year period

FC Stiefel, AB Kornblith, JC Holland - Cancer, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
The use of psychotropic drugs was studied in 200 cancer patients admitted to a medical
oncology unit at Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center, New York, in December 1987 …

A survey of psychotropic drug prescriptions in an oncology population

LR Derogatis, M Feldstein, N Melisaratos, G Morrow… - Cancer, 1979 - Wiley Online Library
The present study examined the prescription practices concerning psychotropic drugs in 5
major oncology centers over a 6 month period. During the survey period 1579 patients were …

A survey of psychotropic drug utilization by patients with advanced neoplastic disease

H Jaeger, GR Morrow, PJ Carpenter… - General hospital psychiatry, 1985 - Elsevier
The utilization of psychotropic drugs in patients with advanced neoplastic disease was
studied over a 14-month period. Eight hundred twenty-four (82.4%) of one thousand …

Antidepressant medications in cancer patients

SK Chaturvedi, P Maguire, P Hopwood - Psycho‐Oncology, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The patterns of psychotropic medications usage were analysed in 146 cancer patients
consecutively referred to an urban psychiatric facility. Antidepressants were prescribed for …

Psychostimulants for depression in hospitalized cancer patients

J Olin, P Masand - Psychosomatics, 1996 - Elsevier
The hospital charts of 59 hospitalized oncology patients who had been treated with either
dextroamphetamine or methylphenidate for depression during a 5-year period at the …

The use of psychotropic medication in patients referred to a psycho‐oncology service

R Cullivan, J Crown, N Walsh - Psycho‐Oncology: Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of psychotropic medication in patients
referred to a psycho‐oncology service. While depressive disorders and psychological …

Psychotropic drug use in the Boston area: a report from the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program

DJ Greenblatt, RI Shader… - Archives of General …, 1975 - jamanetwork.com
During 1972, adults admitted to general medical and surgical wards in Boston area
hospitals were interviewed to determine their use of prescribed psychotropic drugs prior to …

The prescription of psychotropic drugs in primary health care

M Joukamaa, B Sohlman… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
We followed the prescription of psychotropic drugs by primary health care physicians over a
3‐year period. The material consisted of 1000 randomly selected adult primary health care …

Psychotropic drugs on general medical and surgical wards of a teaching hospital

JRT Davidson, D Raft, BF Lewis… - Archives of General …, 1975 - jamanetwork.com
We examined the prescribing habits for psychotropic drugs of internists, surgeons, and
gynecologists on their inpatient wards in a teaching hospital. Data were gathered from …

Psychopharmacology in psycho-oncology

R Caruso, L Grassi, MG Nanni, M Riba - Current psychiatry reports, 2013 - Springer
Psychopharmacological intervention is a major clinical and research area in oncology and
palliative care. Over the last 35 years, psychotropic drugs have been shown to have a …