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Preliminary study of patterns of medication use for depression treatment in C hina
Author(s) -
Zhang Ying,
Becker Thomas,
Kösters Markus
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
asia‐pacific psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1758-5872
pISSN - 1758-5864
DOI - 10.1111/appy.12022
Subject(s) - fluoxetine , paroxetine , medicine , antidepressant , medical prescription , depression (economics) , china , psychiatry , pharmacology , serotonin , geography , anxiety , receptor , macroeconomics , archaeology , economics
This systematic review investigated drug utilization for depression and assessed trends in prescriptions in C hina. Major W estern and C hinese electronic databases were searched without language restriction for studies reporting defined daily doses. A total of 76 studies published between 2000 and 2010 reporting data on prescriptions for depression in C hina between 1996 and 2008 were included. All studies were published in C hinese. Most trials were conducted in urban areas in south and east C hina. Twenty‐nine drugs were reported as antidepressants. On the basis of defined daily doses, melitracen/flupentixol combination, fluoxetine, and paroxetine were the most frequently prescribed compounds. According to published evidence, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have become the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressant drugs in C hina.