International study on antidepressant prescription pattern at 40 major psychiatric institutions and hospitals in Asia: A 10-year comparison study

Chee KY 1 , Tripathi A 2 , Avasthi A 3 , Chong MY 4 , Sim K 5 , Yang SY 6 Show all authors , Glover S 3 , Xiang YT 7 , Si TM 8 , Kanba S 9 , He YL 10 , Lee MS 11 , Chiu HF 12 , Kuga H 9 , Mahendran R 13 , Udormatn P 14 , Kallivayalil RA 15 , Tanra AJ 16 , Maramis M 17 , Shinfuku N 18 , Shen WW 19 , Tan CH 20 , Sartorius N 21

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow, India
  • 3 Department of Psychiatry, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
  • 4 Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, China
  • 5 Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok View, Buangkok Green Medical Park Singapore, Taipei, Taiwan, China
  • 6 Department of Pharmacy, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, China
  • 7 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China
  • 8 Department of Psychiatry, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, Beijing, China
  • 9 Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
  • 10 Department of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
  • 11 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  • 12 Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 13 Department of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore
  • 14 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand
  • 15 Department of Psychiatry, Pushpagiri Medical College, Thiruvalla, India
  • 16 Department of Psychiatry, Hasanuddin University Faculty of Medicine, Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia
  • 17 Dr. Soetomo Hospital - Faculty of Medicine, Airlangga University, Jawa Timur, Indonesia
  • 18 Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
  • 19 Department of Psychiatry, TMU-Wan Fang Medical Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 20 Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 21 Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland
Asia Pac Psychiatry, 2015 Dec;7(4):366-74.
PMID: 25706498 DOI: 10.1111/appy.12176

Abstract

Research in prescription pattern of antidepressants in Asia is lacking. This study aims to compare the antidepressants prescription pattern in Asia in 2003-2004 and 2013.

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