Patterns of Antipsychotic Prescribing by Physicians to Young Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Antipsychotic use among young children has grown rapidly despite a lack of approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for broad use in this age group. Characteristics of physicians who prescribed antipsychotics to young children were identified, and prescribing patterns involving young children and adults were compared.

Methods

Physician-level prescribing data from IMS Health's Xponent database were linked with American Medical Association Masterfile data and analyzed. The sample included all U.S. psychiatrists and a random sample of 5% of family medicine physicians who wrote at least ten antipsychotic prescriptions per year from 2008 to 2011 (N=31,713). Logistic and hierarchical binomial regression models were estimated to examine physician prescribin

SUBMITTER: Huskamp HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5133161 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature