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JULY 20, 2016

More Not Better When Prescribing Antipsychotics

By PPN New Staff
Despite measures to reduce the rate of antipsychotic polypharmacy among patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses, at least 12% of patients are still prescribed multiple antipsychotics after an inpatient stay at a state psychiatric hospital, according to an analysis of U.S. data (J Psychiatr Pract 2016 Jul 19. [Epub ahead of print]).