Off-label prescribing of psychotropics in a psychiatric patient population in Australia
Mietta Kyrios,
Jesse Levido,
Daniel Talbot
et al.
Abstract:Background This study aimed to investigate the practice of off-label prescribing in both in- and outpatient psychiatry practice. Methods One-hundred inpatient and 100 outpatient medical records from adult patients of an Australian psychiatry service from 2020 to 2021 were examined to determine the prevalence of off-label prescribing as defined by Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) indications, adherence to Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) treatment guidelines, frequency of… Show more
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