Trends in antidepressant prescribing in England.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The PAPER Study (Prescribing Antidepressants in Primary care: Ethnic inequalities in tReatment): a study protocol.BJGP open · 2025
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2. New Antidepressant Prescriptions Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sex and Age Differences in a Population-Based Ecological Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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3. Conflict-Related Breakdowns in Routine Medical Care - Longitudinal Outcomes for Civilians with Pre-Existing Cognitive Impairment.Aging and disease · 2024
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4. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home: a federated analysis of 59 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY.BMJ mental health · 2023
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5. OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2: changes in primary care clinical activity in England during the COVID-19 pandemic.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023
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6. A Patient Stratification Approach to Identifying the Likelihood of Continued Chronic Depression and Relapse Following Treatment for Depression.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021
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7. Psychotropic medications sales during COVID-19 outbreak in Italy changed according to the pandemic phases and related lockdowns.Public health · 2021
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8. An analysis of antidepressant prescribing trends in England 2015-2019.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2021
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

5 authors.

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