Changing Trends in Treatment of Acute Mania: Experience of a Tertiary Centre Over a Decade

We investigated trends over a decade in the prescription of lithium, antiepileptics, and antipsychotic agents at discharge for patients hospitalised for acute mania. We conducted a retrospective review of medical records for 165 inpatients with acute mania who had been hospitalised in Cerrahpaşa Fac...

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Published in:Psychiatric quarterly 2016-06, Vol.87 (2), p.305-313
Main Authors: Arıkan, Mehmet Kemal, Poyraz, Cana Aksoy, Baş, Alper, Sağlam, N. Gamze Usta, Batun, Gizem Cetiner, Gültekin, Gözde, Poyraz, Burç Çağrı
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute
Adolescent
Adult
Affective disorders
Aged
Anticonvulsants - therapeutic use
Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use
Antipsychotics
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar Disorder - drug therapy
Bipolar Disorder - therapy
Carbamazepine
Change agents
College professors
Drug therapy
Drug Therapy, Combination - trends
Drug Utilization - trends
Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive Therapy - trends
Female
Haloperidol
Hospitalization
Humans
Lithium
Lithium Compounds - therapeutic use
Male
Mania
Medical records
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Olanzapine
Original Paper
Patients
Psychiatry
Psychotropic drugs
Public Health
Quetiapine
Retrospective Studies
Risperidone
Second generation
Sociology
Valproic acid
Young Adult
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Summary:We investigated trends over a decade in the prescription of lithium, antiepileptics, and antipsychotic agents at discharge for patients hospitalised for acute mania. We conducted a retrospective review of medical records for 165 inpatients with acute mania who had been hospitalised in Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry during 2001–2002 and 2011–2012. Among 165 patients, prescription of olanzapine at discharge increased from 3 to 46 % ( p  
ISSN:0033-2720
1573-6709
DOI:10.1007/s11126-015-9388-9