Outpatient antipsychotic drug use in children and adolescents in Germany between 2004 and 2011

• Published in: European child & adolescent psychiatry Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 413 - 420
• Main Authors: Schröder, Carsten, Dörks, Michael, Kollhorst, Bianca, Blenk, Tilo, Dittmann, Ralf W., Garbe, Edeltraut, Riedel, Oliver
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Antipsychotic Agents - administration & dosage; Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use; Antipsychotics; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - drug therapy; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - epidemiology; Child; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Child, Preschool; Children; Cross-Sectional Studies; Databases, Pharmaceutical; Drug abuse; Drug Prescriptions - statistics & numerical data; Drug use; Efficacy; Female; Germany - epidemiology; Humans; Incidence; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental Disorders - drug therapy; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Off-label; Off-Label Use - statistics & numerical data; Original Contribution; Outpatients - statistics & numerical data; Physicians; Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data; Practice Patterns, Physicians' - trends; Prescribed; Prescribing; Prescription drugs; Prevalence; Psychiatry; Safety; Germany; Antipsychotics; Neuroleptics; Off-label use; Children; Adolescents; Epidemiology

Studies from different countries showed increasing use of antipsychotics in pediatric patients. However, these studies were methodologically limited and could not assess underlying diagnoses and off-label use sufficiently. This is the first study to examine antipsychotic prescriptions in a represent...