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Prevalence of atypical antipsychotic use in psychiatric outpatients: comparison of women of childbearing age with men.
- Source :
- Archives of Women's Mental Health; Dec2014, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p583-586, 4p, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- To characterize current treatment practices, we compared the use of atypical antipsychotic drugs among women of childbearing age to men based on electronic medical records of 1073 hospital-based psychiatric outpatients given at least one second-generation antipsychotic drug. One quarter of psychiatric outpatients sampled were prescribed at least one atypical antipsychotic, in more than half of cases for off-label indications. Women were significantly more likely than men to be diagnosed with mood or anxiety disorders than psychotic disorders and to be prescribed quetiapine (60.7 vs. 48.0 %) or aripiprazole (31.2 vs. 23.9 %), but less likely risperidone (15.8 vs. 26.1 %) or ziprasidone (10 vs. 14 %). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14341816
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Archives of Women's Mental Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99541870
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-014-0465-0