Dataset Information

Decrease in Statewide Antipsychotic Prescribing after Implementation of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation Services.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To learn if a quality of care Medicaid child psychiatric consultation service implemented in three different steps was linked to changes in statewide child antipsychotic utilization.

Data sources/study setting

Washington State child psychiatry consultation program primary data and Medicaid pharmacy division antipsychotic utilization secondary data from July 1, 2006, through December 31, 2013.

Study design

Observational study in which consult program data were analyzed with a time series analysis of statewide antipsychotic utilization.

Data collection/extraction methods

All consultation program database information involving antipsychotics was compared to Medicaid pharmacy division database information involving antipsychotic utilization.