2024
DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.26.24304727
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Prescribing of antipsychotics for people diagnosed with severe mental illness in UK primary care: A 20-year investigation of who receives treatment, with which agents, and at what doses

Alvin Richards-Belle,
Naomi Launders,
Sarah Hardoon
et al.

Abstract: Background Contemporary data relating to antipsychotic prescribing in UK primary care for patients diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) are lacking. Aims To describe contemporary patterns of antipsychotic prescribing in UK primary care for patients diagnosed with SMI. Methods Cohort study of patients with an SMI diagnosis (i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, other non-organic psychoses) first recorded in primary care between 2000-2017 derived from Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Patients were con… Show more

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