Psychotropic drug therapy knowledge of health care practitioners

Factors contributing to medication errors: a literature review

“…Much of the research in relation to knowledge of medications has tended to focus on specific aspects of drug knowledge ( Weiner & Schumacher, 1976; Perlstein et al ., 1979 ; Boggs et al ., 1988 ). Weiner & Schumacher (1976) looked at the knowledge of eight groups of healthcare workers in relation to psychotropic drug therapy.…”

A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Comparing “Guideline Exposed” and “Guideline Naive” Physicians in Respect to Dosage Selection and Treatment Outcome with Doxepin in Depressive Disorders

“…Physicians ' non-compliance with dosage guidelines is seen as a major reason for therapy failure in antidepressive pharmacotherapy [11,24,30,32] . As an explanation, some authors have suggested that the prescribing physicians lack professional knowledge [5,13,14,42] . In order to test this assumption, we randomly assigned physicians to either a group which was exposed to dosage guidelines with detailed information on how to prescribe correctly, or to a control group, which was left uninformed.…”

Correlates of low‐dosage treatment with antidepressants by psychiatrists and general practitioners

“…11 One assumption is that lack of knowledge on the side of the general practitioners causes inappropriate dosages although this phenomenon is also seen in psychiatric outpatient care. 5,[12][13][14][15] More research is needed to better understand why physicians regularly deviate from the established treatment guidelines.…”