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Simulated discharge system of prescription and long‐term drug treatment in a psychiatric hospital
Author(s) -
Ballinger B. R.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb06945.x
Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , hospital discharge , psychiatry , drug , drug treatment , term (time) , psychiatric hospital , intensive care medicine , pharmacology , physics , quantum mechanics
The drug sheets of patients resident in a psychiatric hospital for more than 1 year were reviewed. The simulated discharge system involving the re‐writing of drug sheets every 12 weeks was in operation, but there was only a slight increase in prescription changes at the time of renewal; 35.4 % of prescriptions had been unchanged for 1 year and 4.3 % for 5 years. A high proportion of long‐term prescriptions were for purgatives, hypnotics and neuroleptics.