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In real clinical practice some patients are treated with combination of clozapine and another depot antipsychotic. Although we have a positive evidence of clozapine combination with some...
21 May 2017 1,524 11 View
More than 50 % patients with MDD are not treated appropriately. More than 50 % of patients with MDD do not take their drugs regularly. In this point of view, a pharmacotherapy of MDD in primary...
05 September 2016 4,369 11 View
According to the evidence and some reports and suggestions amisulpride is very effective antipsychotic with medium effect size (Cipriani; Lancet). Because of its pharmacological profile and...
06 July 2016 8,153 12 View
According to the media many fatal medical errors have been happened in many European countries. Although a 'soul' of inappropriate treatment and prescribing is well known in the literature, in a...
01 June 2016 3,009 8 View
About 50 % of elderly patients aged over 65 discontinue with their medications and majority of them discontinue with medication within first 3 months. Many patients want to get more data about...
16 May 2016 5,986 4 View
In the case of major depressive disorder treatment (MDD) a full remission is main goal of the treatment, however about 2/3 of patients fail to achieve remission in first year of the treatment with...
03 January 2016 8,840 18 View
In last decade this is very important question and this issue should be discussed within each country, unfortunately only some countries have conducted this trials (U.K., U.S.). In many countries...
21 December 2015 4,062 27 View
More than 10 % of prescriptions are connected with serious medical errors and more than 50 % of antibiotics are prescribed in a inappropriate way. Clinical pharmacist (CP) are very important and...
23 November 2015 3,062 13 View
According to the newest evidence more than 10 % of patients are admitted to the hospital, because of inappropriate prescribing and drug-related problems. More than 20 % of patients are treated...
12 October 2015 9,135 57 View
According to the many well designed trials and reports, there is an important correlation between hypertension and psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric patients are often treated with...
15 June 2015 7,006 17 View
Epidemiological data are very important informations, which can be used in daily work to reduce inappropriate prescribing and reduce healthcare costs. If there are not clear benefits why any drugs...
25 May 2015 4,429 8 View
There is not much evidence about this problem, which is very important for daily work. Often the pharmacotherapy from our colleagues has not been changed, although there are several reasons that...
22 April 2015 3,448 6 View
According to the many trials and guidelines the use of antipsychotic polypharmacy is not recommended, however more than 1/3 of patients are treated with antipsychotic polypharmacy (APP)....
21 April 2015 7,234 7 View
In the last few years many prescribers do not prescribe IR-MPH in their practice, although clinical guidelines do not support this practice, especially in the titration phase. A pharmaceutical...
20 April 2015 6,854 5 View
Usually the antipsychotics are titrated very fast in first 1-3 weeks. However there are several reasons for non-response and one of them is also 'pharmacokinetic failure', when usually even higher...
14 April 2015 1,930 6 View
Psychiatric patients usually take many different medications and often they have been already treated with beta-blockers. However, there are several cases in where You should add beta-blockers,...
11 April 2015 8,936 15 View
Under my question I expect nice answers. The most important is that our patients do not receive inappropriate prescriptions and therefore prescribing process should be highlighted and a...
07 April 2015 382 4 View
Antipsychotic polypharmacy refers to the co-prescription of more than one antipsychotic drug for an individual patient. According to the many studies consumption of clozapine in patients with...
30 March 2015 1,516 22 View
Nitrofurantoin (NF)-induced adverse effects have been reported frequently, although NF seems to be a first line treatment for lower urinary infections according to the last E.U. and U.S....
26 March 2015 8,491 6 View
Prudent prescribing of antimicrobial drugs to hospital inpatients may reduce the incidence of antimicrobial drug resistance and healthcare-associated infection. Despite strenuous efforts to...
25 March 2015 3,877 14 View
According to the few studies and reports there is a big lack of reports in psychiatry and neurology, where medical errors and inappropriate prescribing are reported. In most countries worldwide...
16 March 2015 7,220 8 View
