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Medication Use in Continuing Care Psychogeriatric Wards
Author(s) -
Gray T.N.,
Shah A.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 0726-4240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1994.tb01081.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dementia , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychotropic medication , psychiatry , medical diagnosis , psychiatric diagnosis , metropolitan area , emergency medicine , mental health , disease , pathology
Psychogeriatric patients from a large metropolitan psychiatric hospital were surveyed for medication use. The demographic characteristics, medication use and case note diagnosis were documented Fifty‐nine percent had a diagnosis of dementia and 32% had a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Twenty percent of the patients received no psychotropic drugs. Fewer dementia patients were on psychotropic drugs than patients with other diagnoses. Younger patients tended to be on more prescribed psychotropic drugs. Patients on hypnotics/sedatives were younger than those without. More men tended to be on chlormethiazole than women.