Evaluating the safety of mental health-related prescribing in UK primary care: a cross-sectional study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most patients with mental illness are managed in primary care, yet there is a lack of data exploring potential prescribing safety issues in this setting for this population.

Objectives

Examine the prevalence of, between-practice variation in, and patient and practice-level risk factors for, 18 mental health-related potentially hazardous prescribing indicators and four inadequate medication monitoring indicators in UK primary care.

Method

Cross-sectional analyses of routinely collected electronic health records from 361 practices contributing to Clinical Practice Research Datalink GOLD database. The proportion of patients 'at risk' (based on an existing diagnosis, medication, age and/or sex) triggering each indicator and composite indicator was calculated. T

SUBMITTER: Khawagi WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9046740 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature