Trends in Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications for US Children

Trends in prescribing of antipsychotic medications for US children

The increase in frequencies of antipsychotic prescribing and the large number of children receiving antipsychotics each year reinforce the urgent need to ...

Antipsychotic Medication Prescribing Trends in Children and ...

POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THE RISING TREND IN ANTIPSYCHOTIC USE · Greater Acceptability of Psychotropic Medication Use in Children · Increased Knowledge and Awareness.

Trends in Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications for US Children

The overall frequency of antipsychotic prescribing increased from 8.6 per 1000 US children in 1995–1996 to 39.4 per 1000 US children in 2001–2002.

Trends in Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications for US Children

Fifty- three percent of the prescriptions were for behavioral indications or affective disorders, conditions for which antipsychotics have not been carefully ...

Trends in Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications for US Children

The overall frequency of antipsychotic prescribing increased from 8.6 per 1000 US children in 1995–1996 to 39.4 per 1000 US children in 2001–2002.

Trends in antipsychotic prescribing to children and adolescents in ...

In the UK, general practitioners do not initiate antipsychotic medications in patients younger than 18 years. The CPRD Aurum database includes ...

Trends in Antipsychotic Medication Use in Young Privately Insured ...

In privately insured young children (aged 2−7 years), prescription antipsychotic use was 0.27% (27 per 10,000 children) in 2007, was highest in ...

Prescriptions of antipsychotics: trends in children and teenagers

These drugs are treatments for mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The study reported increases in both new and ...

Psychotropic Medication Prescribing for Children and Adolescents ...

Thereafter, the trend changed significantly, and the prescription rate increased by 1.0% per month (95% CI, 0.7%-1.4%), reaching 0.1 per 1000 ...

Trends in Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications for US Children

During the study period 86,187 subjects were dispensed antipsychotic agents, yielding a prevalence of use of 0.87 (95 % CI: 0.86, 0.88) per 100 males and 1.01 ( ...

Trends in antipsychotic prescribing in children and adolescents

Their finding is of substantial public health significance even if only roughly 0·1% of all young people attending a GP practice receive such prescriptions, ...

Trends in antipsychotic prescribing for approved and unapproved ...

Overall, the number of Medicaid youth with an antipsychotic prescription fill halved between 2014 and 2018. Youth aged 17 years and under and ...

Antipsychotic prescribing patterns in children and adolescents ...

The three most frequently prescribed antipsychotics in both years were risperidone, quetiapine, and olanzapine. Psychotropic co-prescribing ...

Patterns of Antipsychotic Prescribing by Physicians to Young Children

Using all-payer, physician-level prescription data on psychiatrists and family medicine physicians who prescribed antipsychotic medications over ...

Antipsychotic prescriptions for children have doubled

The study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry, found that the proportion of children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics in English ...

Trends in Antipsychotic Medication Use in Children, Adolescents ...

They found that boys are more likely than girls to be given prescriptions for antipsychotics. Approximately 1.5% of boys 10 to 18 years of age ...

Trends in off-label use of antipsychotic medications among Texas ...

RESULTS: In this study, 43,792, 44,335, 37,221, and 24,879 (January-August) children with at least 1 antipsychotic prescription were identified ...

Epidemiologic Features of Antipsychotic Prescribing to Children and ...

The incidences for typical and atypical antipsychotics showed trends similar to those of the respective prevalences. However, the overall ...

National Trends in the Outpatient Treatment of Children and ...

Conclusions There has been a sharp national increase in antipsychotic treatment among children and adolescents in office-based medical practice. Second- ...

New Users of Antipsychotics Among Children and Adolescents in ...

In children and adolescents, antipsychotic drugs are frequently used off-label (17, 18). In subjects under 18 years of age, 69% to 92% of the ...