Wittmann, Markus and Hausner, Helmut and Brauner, Sven and Hajak, Goeran and Haen, Ekkehard (2009) Drug treatment of personality disorders - An evaluation of the AGATE working group. PSYCHOPHARMAKOTHERAPIE, 16 (6). pp. 246-250. ISSN 0944-6877,
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Introduction: Psychotropic drug therapy of personality disorder is only little evidence based. This study characterises the psychotropic therapy of personality disorders in German psychiatric hospitals. Methods: Twice-a-year data of the complete drug therapy, age, sation. Results: 7,3% of the patients suffer from personality disorder as the main psychiatric diagnosis. The majority (51,9%) is of the borderline subtype and 68,7% of the drug prescriptions are related to this. Conclusion: Especially the borderline subtype goes along with a high rate of psychotropic polypharmacy. The most noticeable change is the increase of both escitalopram and quetiapine prescriptions. All in all drug therapy of personality disorders in clinical practise is not consequently following evidence base.ex and diagnosis of all inpatients in the participating hospitals is anonymously collected in a database for statistical evalu
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DSM-III-R; QUETIAPINE; COMORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; EFFICACY; PATTERNS; ABUSE; Personality disorder; drug therapy; AGATE |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2020 04:38 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2020 04:38 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/28237 |
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