title: Psychotropic prescribing patterns of nonpsychiatric residents in a general hospital in 1973 and 1982.
abstract: The findings of a study of the frequency and type of psychotropic drugs that nonpsychiatric residents prescribed for nonpsychiatric patients in a teaching hospital in 1982 were compared with the findings of a similar study in the same hospital nine years earlier. The overall percentage of patients receiving psychotropic drugs remained almost the same, at less than 10 percent. However, in 1982 residents prescribed antidepressants almost four times as often as in 1973, and the use of antianxiety agents decreased. Deficiencies in chart documentation of psychotropic prescribing and the tendency to use conservative dosages remained unchanged from the earlier study.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Haggerty
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: McCartney
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raft
mesh_terms: D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004363:Drug Utilization; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009657:North Carolina; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents; D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs