Haen, Ekkehard and Laux, Gerd (2011) Drug surveillance of psychiatric inpatients - the AGATE project. PSYCHOPHARMAKOTHERAPIE, 18 (6). pp. 238-243. ISSN 0944-6877,
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Drug surveillance of psychiatric inpatients - the AGATE project AGATE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arzneimitteltherapie bei psychiatrischen Erkrankungen) is a clinical network joined at present by 51 psychiatric community hospitals and 9 hospitals specialized in psychiatry of childhood and adolescence to ensure pharmacotherapy safety. The cooperation is built around the continuous occupation with severe adverse drug effects (SADE) and mistakes in drug therapy: Such events are monitored and documented, their cause is evaluated in relation to the drugs under suspicion, and the results are reported to the drug license authorities. At two days per year (the census days), one in mid-April, the other in mid-October, the prescription in terms of drugs and dosages is documented of all patients hospitalized at these days together with sex, age, and diagnosis of the patients. In these five items ongoing treatment of diseases is mirrored. Furthermore, the frequency of prescriptions of a drug may be estimated and related to the occurrence of SADE of this drug. AGATE runs two databases to store SADE (at present some 2,500 cases) and prescription data (some 8,000 data per year). AGATE runs an own academy for education in pharmacotherapy; the academy offers basic courses in pharmacokinetics, seminars in psychopharmacology, case report conferences, special training to prepare for the board exams in psychiatry and psychotherapy and in clinical pharmacology, and online training in the clinical pharmacological commenting of drug concentrations. The drug information service (AID) answers questions related to pharmacotherapy, which are published if they are of interest to a broader community. Special risk-benefit-evaluations of drugs are performed on a basis of some 150 patients treated in at least two hospitals and published as a series of books.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | REFERENCE RANGES; AMUP-BAYERN; HOSPITALS; PHARMACOTHERAPY; CLOZAPINE; AGATE; drug information; pharmacovigilance; drug surveillance |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2020 05:45 |
| Last Modified: | 27 May 2020 05:45 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/19825 |
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