Discrepancies on prescribing antipsychotics
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Prescribing antipsychotics for children and adolescents
There has been a huge increase in the prescription of antipsychotic medication to children and adolescents (<18 years of age). However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to support an ever widening pattern of prescribing in this age group. In the USA, between 1999 and 2002 there was a sixfold increase in the prescription of antipsychotics to this population – 92% were second-generation anti...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.166.2.263b