Treatment patterns, resource use, and economic outcomes associated with atypical antipsychotic prescriptions in children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in quebec.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess treatment patterns, health care resource utilization (HRU), and costs among previously stimulant-treated children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) receiving atypical antipsychotic (AAP) prescriptions in Quebec.

Methods

Health care claims data extracted from Quebec's provincial health plan database between March 2007 and February 2012 were analyzed. Children and adolescents (6 to 17 years) with ADHD who were taking a stimulant and either switched to, or augmented with, an AAP (with the first AAP defined as the index AAP) without a documented diagnosis for which AAPs are Health Canada-approved were included. Discontinuation, augmentation, and switching of the index AAP during the 12-month, follow-up period were estimated

SUBMITTER: Lachaine J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4244879 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature