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Audit of GP practice records of patients prescribed clozapine
Author(s) -
Parker Caroline,
Somasunderam Portia
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.156
Subject(s) - clozapine , audit , medicine , mental illness , secondary care , psychiatry , general practice , mental health , primary care , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , family medicine , management , economics
Abstract Patients prescribed clozapine have associated physical health risks because of both use of the drug itself and their underlying mental illness. It is therefore important that primary and secondary care work closely together to optimise patient care. Here, the authors describe their audit of patients prescribed clozapine in secondary care to identify whether they were registered on their GP practice's severe mental illness register and whether the practice had a record that they were taking clozapine. Copyright © 2010 Wiley Interface Ltd