Computer prediction of psychotropic drug assignment in state mental facilities: effect of eliminating alcoholics from the study sample.
A previous study on assignment of four major categories of psychotropic drugs to psychiatric inpatients generated the hypothesis that patients assigned minor tranquilizers consisted of two distinct sub-groups, one of which consisted of diagnosed alcoholics. The present study confirmed that hypothesis. More importantly, it found that minor tranquilizer assignment to non-alcoholic inpatients was a virtually random procedure. The general ability of predicting psychotropic drug assignment via a statistical model was nevertheless supported.
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Missiouri Institute of Psychiatry, University of Missouri Scool of Medicine, St. Louis 63139, USA.
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D000437:Alcoholism / Q000188:drug therapy; D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008923:Missouri; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012984:Software
D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs