BACKGROUND In France, little information exists on psychotropic drug consumption in the elderly. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe the patterns of psychotropic drug consumption, including the extent of inappropriate prescribing, in elderly subjects enrolled in a large health insurance plan in France (MGEN). METHODS In 2011, 5840 MGEN affiliates aged at least 65 years were randomly sele...

PND11 NatioNal estimates of PrevaleNce aND PatterNs of PsycHotroPic PolyPHarmacy amoNg elDerly iNDiviDuals witH ParkiNsoN’s Disease iN NursiNg Home aND Home HealtHcare settiNgs iN tHe uNiteD states Bhattacharjee S, Goldstone L, Warholak T The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Objectives: Some elderly individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) may suffer from more than one psychiatric comorb...

OBJECTIVES To describe and compare temporal changes in prevalence and incidence of psychotropic use (antipsychotics, antidepressants and benzodiazepines and related drugs; BZDRs) in persons with newly diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD) between university hospital districts of Finland during 2005-2011. METHODS The MEDALZ study includes all community-dwellers of Finland who received a clinicall...

OBJECTIVE Although there is a global concern about the increased use of psychotropic agents in children, most research literature originates in the United States and is based on figures from the first half of the 1990s. Also, few studies document the use of various types of psychotropic agents. The objective of this study was to investigate the use of psychotropic medication in children in the ...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that medical students are more aware of the benefits of psychotropic treatment than are members of the general public, and that the more knowledge students acquire about psychiatry and pharmacology, the more favorable their attitudes become towards psychotropic drugs and other treatments. OBJECTIVES This study among students investigates the relationship between c...

OBJECTIVE To describe, analyze, and interpret patterns of psychotropic drug prescribing in new psychiatric patients attending psychiatric outpatient clinics in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. DESIGN AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of psychotropic drug prescribing by psychiatrists for 132 new psychiatric outpatients who were seen at the outpatient clinics surveyed and who were e...

The subject of this research is the activity John Jacob Astor and his role in American opium smuggling trade. Description given to differences between British models China. An attempt made determine peculiarities Astor's business. article employs following sources: works German historian Alexander Emmerich from University Augsburg dedicated Germans their fate United States; work (Jake) Chen on ...

introduction: children may be intentionally or unintentionally exposed to any substance. substance poisoning is one of the most important emergency interventions in children that cause a great number of deaths each year. regarding the importance of this issue and recent increase in number of poisoning cases, a study with the aim of investigating cases of substance poisoning and factors involved...