Background: Primary care physicians, rather than psychiatrists, prescribe a majority of
psychotropic medications in the United States. However, past research has shown …

Background The authors examined recent changes in the number and proportion of patients
prescribed antidepressants by psychiatrists in outpatient private practice and characterized …

Context Antidepressants have recently become the most commonly prescribed class of
medications in the United States. Objective To compare sociodemographic and clinical …

Background While many studies describe deficiencies in primary care antidepressant
treatment, little research has applied similar standards to psychiatric practice. This study …

Objective This study was done in an effort to determine whether there was a change over the
past decade in the number and proportion of patients prescribed antidepressants by …

Background: The rate of antidepressant treatment in the US has significantly increased in
the past decade. There are, however, concerns about undertreatment among traditionally …

Over the past two decades, the use of antidepressant medications has grown to the point
that they are now the third most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United …

Context.—Psychotropic medications are widely prescribed, but how new classes of
psychotropic medications have affected prescribing patterns has not been well documented …

OBJECTIVE: The study examined whether the relationship between the course of
antidepressant treatment and the type of prescriber—psychiatrist or nonpsychiatrist—varied …

Background: We investigated trends in antidepressant use, as well as broader changes in
depression treatment, following the availability of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors …