[PDF] Top 20 A study on prescribing patterns of atypical antipsychotic in psychiatric disorders

... Psychiatric disorders are one of the important causes of global morbidity and often are chronic disorders requiring treatment with psychopharmacological agents for prolonged periods, may be extending ... See full document

... an antipsychotic started in the ...an antipsychotic. Perhaps due to different practice patterns, we found no association between these factors and antipsychotic prescription at discharge in ... See full document

... anxiety disorders, their prescribing patterns have not been studied in Singa- ...prescription patterns for outpatients with depressive and an- xiety disorders in a general hospital in ... See full document

... This case also illustrates the chal- lenges of treating diabetes in patients with severe psychiatric disorders. Members of a multidisciplinary psy- chiatric team see A.T. several times a week. Nevertheless, ... See full document

... develop psychiatric disorders due to a number of factors like changes in the brain, other illnesses ...rational prescribing of antipsychotics to the Elderly. The study included elderly ... See full document

... of psychiatric treatment and research, and is constantly seeking new and improved drugs to treat psychiatric ...on psychiatric practice that legitimately can be called revolutionary, their ... See full document

... four atypical agents (risperidone, olan- zapine, aripiprazole, and ...studied. Study sub- jects were frail, mostly institutionalized elderly with multiple risk factors for vascular ... See full document

... which psychiatric symptoms do not yet imply long-term institutionalization, which may ex- plain lower AP prescribing ...the study took place in specialized settings where specialists are often able ... See full document

... For psychiatric conditions, general practitioners are usually informed of a diagnosis requiring specialist med- ications from secondary or tertiary ...the study cohort were screened for pos- sible diagnoses ... See full document

... typical antipsychotic like thioridazine, droperidol, pimozide can cause clinically significant QT interval prolongation which may lead to the ventricular arrhythmias, torsade de ...pointes[3]. Atypical ... See full document

... psychiatric disorders. Kupfer D, Detre I, Noval J: Relationship of certain childhood traits to adult psychiatric disorders. Chamberlin RW: A study of an interview method for identifying [r] ... See full document

... Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria by at least two expert psychiatrists on the basis of extensive clinical interviews and a review of medical ...I disorders were ...an atypical antipsychotic ... See full document

... present study showed that the response rate of the proposed three drugs was equal, but the onset of action of aripipra- zole was slower than risperidone and ...Our study had some limitations, which must be ... See full document

... All subjects (N = 80) were assigned to receive either haloperidol (N = 23), risperidone (N = 21), olanzapine (N = 18), or quetiapine (N = 18) according to the clinical judgment of the investigator at the baseline ... See full document

... Schizophrenia is considered the prototypic disorder for understanding the phenomenology of psychosis 3 . It is associated with a high morbidity and mortality resulting from strikingly high suicide rate of 10 % 4 . ... See full document

... neurological disorders with common characteristics such as dysfunction in language development in the social sphere, as well as the occurrence of repetitive behaviors and restricted interests ... See full document

... an antipsychotic prescription followed best practice guidelines ...nonpsychiatrists. Antipsychotic medications were typically used only after other pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments were ... See full document

... gastrointestinal disorders which include peptic ulcer disease (PUD), dyspepsia, gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD),eradication of Helicobacter pylori (in combination with antibiotics), controlling excessive ... See full document

... the study of metabolic syndrome are diet induced, genetic models, chemical induced, diet and chemical ...to study the effects of single genes by developing transgenic or gene knockouts to determine the ... See full document

... The inception of Chlorpromazine, in 1950, signified a paradigm shift in the management (and our understand- ing) of schizophrenia. Although several other antipsy- chotics were developed over the following years, it took ... See full document