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| ISSN |
2220-3206 (online) |
| Open Access |
This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
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© The Author(s) 2025. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Baishideng Publishing Group Inc, 7041 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 160, Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA |
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http://www.wjgnet.com |
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Psychiatry |
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Retrospective Cohort Study |
| Article Title |
Patterns of utilization of antipsychotic drugs and direct medical costs among schizophrenia patients in a tertiary care hospital
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Invited Manuscript |
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Aqeel Haider, Lekha Saha and Debashish Basu |
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| Corresponding Author |
Lekha Saha, Full Professor, MD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh 0172, India. lekhasaha@rediffmail.com |
| Key Words |
Patterns of utilization; Antipsychotic drugs; Direct medical cost; Schizophrenia; Drugs |
| Core Tip |
This study has found that atypical antipsychotics had the highest prescribing frequency among antipsychotics in all the categories of schizophrenia. Olanzapine was the most frequently prescribed atypical antipsychotic. Half of the patients received concomitant drugs due to the presence of psychiatric and non-psychiatric comorbidities. Trihexyphenidyl had the highest prescribing frequency among concomitant drugs. The present study also showed a low average number of drugs per prescription according to World Health Organization prescribing indicators and low prescribing frequency of antipsychotics from National List of Essential Medicines 2015 and World Health Organization Essential Medicines List 2019, and low prescribing frequency of injectable formulations of antipsychotics. The present study can provide useful data to review and update treatment policy at our institute. |
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2025-12-31 05:47 |
| Citation |
Haider A, Saha L, Basu D. Patterns of utilization of antipsychotic drugs and direct medical costs among schizophrenia patients in a tertiary care hospital. World J Psychiatry 2026; 16(1): 109365 |
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https://www.wjgnet.com/2220-3206/full/v16/i1/109365.htm |
| DOI |
https://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v16.i1.109365 |
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