Prescribing practices in psychiatric hospitals in Eastern Europe

摘要: Abstract Background There has been no evidence about the prescribing practices in psychiatric care Eastern Europe. Aims To examine patterns of psychotropic five countries Method We conducted a one-day census treatments used eight hospitals Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. examined clinical records medication charts 1304 patients. Results The use polypharmacy was frequent across all diagnostic groups. Only 6.8% patients were on monotherapy. mean number prescribed drugs 2.8 (SD 0.97) with 26.5% receiving two drugs, 42.1% three 22.1% being four or more drugs. Typical antipsychotics to 63% atypical 40% psychosis. Older generations antidepressants 29% depression. Anxiolitic 20.4% benzodiazepines 68.5% patients. One third received an anticholinergic drug regular basis. Conclusions generation frequently than Western Psychotropic is common practice. need for adopting evidence-based practice these countries.