[Pharmacoepidemiology of psychotropic medication: utilisation and impact in real-life conditions].

Pharmaco-epidemiology: what do (and don't) we know about utilisation and impact of psychotropic medications in real-life conditions?

Epidemiology of psychiatric medication use in patients recovering from critical illness at a long-term acute-care facility.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To describe the pharmacoepidemiology of psychotropic medication prescription in patients recovering from life-threatening medical and surgical illness. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a random sample of medical records. SETTING Regional referral center. PATIENTS Eighty-nine randomly selected patients transferred from an ICU to the study facility. INTERVENTIONS None. ...

Spatio-temporal clusters of new psychotropic medications among Michigan children insured by Medicaid.

PURPOSE The prescription of psychotropic medications to children and adolescents has increased dramatically over the last decade. However, the development of disparities in prescribing is poorly understood. We examined whether clustering of utilization is a common phenomenon among early adopters of medications described the characteristics of clusters. METHODS We obtained the complete Medicai...

Patterns of psychotropic medication prescriptions by psychiatrists for private clinic outpatients in kerman province, iran.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the pattern and utilisation of psychotropic drug prescriptions by psychiatrists in Kerman Province, Iran. METHODS The prescriptions of 27 psychiatrists were randomly selected from two Iranian public insurance organisations and were analysed for the mean number of drugs/prescriptions, drug category and the most frequently prescribed drug in each c...

The depth, duration, and degree of outpatient pediatric polypharmacy in Colorado fee-for-service Medicaid patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Outpatient pediatric polypharmacy is poorly characterized. Identification of at-risk populations has clinical implications for pharmacy case management programs. We described the degree of exposure to polypharmacy using parameters of depth (concurrent medication count) and duration, reported commonly dispensed medications and exposure to three example potential drug-dr...