ArticleInternational psychiatry : bulletin of the Board of International Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists2009
Psychotropic drug prescribing in a Nigerian psychiatric hospital.
Article in International psychiatry : bulletin of the Board of International Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Assessment of psychotropic medicines utilization patterns for the treatment of mental and neurological disorders in Public Hospitals of Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A record-based study.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Prescribing patterns of long-acting injectable antipsychotics in a community setting in South Africa.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2022Article
- Prescribing pattern of psychotropic medications in child psychiatric practice in a mental referral hospital in Botswana.The Pan African medical journal · 2017Article
- Prevalence and correlates of "high dose" antipsychotic prescribing: findings from a hospital audit.Annals of medical and health sciences research · 2013Article
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Abstract
Psychopharmacotherapy dominates the therapeutic arsenal of psychiatrists and, not surprisingly, psychotropic drugs are widely consumed in psychiatric practice. The pattern of prescribing of these drugs needs to be appraised in terms of 'rational drug use', which may be defined as 'the use of the least number of drugs to obtain the best possible effects in the shortest possible time and at a reasonable cost' (Gross, 1981).
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