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Psychotropic drug prescribing in a Nigerian psychiatric hospital
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Psychopharmacotherapy dominates the therapeutic arsenal of psychiatrists and, not surprisingly, psychotropic drugs are widely consumed in psychiatric practice. The pattern of prescribing of these drugs needs to be appraised in terms of ‘rational drug use', which may be defined as ‘the use of the least number of drugs to obtain the best possible effects in the shortest possible time and at a reasonable cost’ (Gross, 1981).
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