The prescribing of psychotropic drugs in mental health services in Trinidad Prescripción de psicotrópicos en los servicios de salud mental de Trinidad

• Main Authors: Shelley Moore, Lazara K. Montane Jaime, Hari Maharajh, Indar Ramtahal, Sandra Reid, Feroza Sircar Ramsewak, Mala Maharaj
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2002
• Subjects: Psychotropic drugs; drug therapy; drug utilization; mental disorders; Trinidad and Tobago; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Indian; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/055811e1d01b496f8fe11ad787958925

Objective. To describe, analyze, and interpret patterns of psychotropic drug prescribing in new psychiatric patients attending psychiatric outpatient clinics in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Design and Methods. This was a cross-sectional study of psychotropic drug prescribing by psychiatrists fo...