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Antidepressant prescribing among referrals to a community mental health unit in New Zealand
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
Abstract
This study involved a case-note review of referrals to community psychiatric services in a university town in New Zealand. About one third of all 163 patients referred were taking antidepressants for depression; of these one third were taking therapeutic doses, with the remainder taking inadequate doses. This tends to confirm the findings of other studies that have identified problems relating to GP prescribing of antidepressants.
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