Antipsychotic Medication Use Among Publicly Insured Pregnant Women in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Given the increasing use and broadening of indications for use of antipsychotic medications in the general population, as well as the paucity of information on the safety of this drug class during pregnancy, the study documented patterns of antipsychotic medication use among pregnant women.

Methods

Medicaid Analytic eXtract data (2001-2010) from pregnant women who delivered live-born infants were used. Antipsychotic use at both the class and the individual drug level was defined based on dispensed outpatient prescriptions. Users' characteristics, including mental disorder diagnoses, were described. Temporal trends in use, as well as discontinuation patterns and psychotropic polytherapy, during pregnancy were evaluated.

Results

Among 1,522,247 pregnancies, th

SUBMITTER: Park Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665733 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature