PMID: 9663374Jul 15, 1998Paper

Psychotropic prescribing for the elderly in office-based practice

Clinical Therapeutics
R R AparasuS Sitzman

Abstract

This study employed data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) 1995 to (1) determine the prevalence of the prescribing of psychotropic drugs for elderly patients by office-based physicians in the United States; (2) estimate the prevalence of the prescribing of potentially inappropriate psychotropic drugs in this patient population; and (3) identify any factors that predict such prescribing. For the purposes of this study, previously developed consensus criteria were adopted defining inappropriate psychotropic drugs as those that should be avoided in the elderly. According to the NAMCS data, psychotropic medications were prescribed in an estimated 12.02 million visits by elderly patients (95% confidence interval [CI], 11.07-12.97 million). The psychotropic medications most frequently prescribed for elderly patients by office-based physicians were antidepressants and antianxiety agents. The occurrence of visits at which psychotropic medications were prescribed was greater in patients who were over 84 years of age, female, white, or from the western United States. Primary care physicians prescribed the majority of these psychotropic drugs, and most visits to psychiatrists by elderly patients resulted in the pres...Continue Reading

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