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The British Journal of Psychiatry 152: 511-515 (1988)
© 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Prescribing for the long-term mentally ill. A study of treatment practices

F Holloway
Academic Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College Hospital, London.

A survey of the drug treatment of long-term mentally ill users of a district psychiatric service is described. The appropriateness of prescriptions was assessed against standard criteria after a detailed clinical review of each patient. Overprescribing, particularly of sedative/hypnotic and of anticholinergic and antipsychotic drugs, was common. Junior psychiatrists and general practitioners are in need of improved training in the management of chronic psychiatric illness: a review of treatment practices might be an appropriate medium for this training.


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