Polypharmacy in psychiatry: a review.

摘要: Psychiatric polypharmacy refers to the prescription of two or more psychiatric medications concurrently a patient. It can be categorised as same-class, multi-class, adjunctive, augmentation and total polypharmacy. Despite advances in psychopharmacology better understanding principles therapeutics, its practice is increasing rapidly. The prevalence psychiatry varies between 13%-90%. There are various clinical pharmaco-economic factors associated with it. Dealing requires an factors. Education, guidelines algorithms for appropriate management conditions effective ways avoid irrational