Costs of psychotropics for outpatients with bipolar disorder in Japan; the MUSUBI 2016 survey

• Published in: Annals of medicine (Helsinki) Vol. 55; no. 1; p. 2224047
• Main Authors: Adachi, Naoto, Kubota, Yukihisa, Goto, Eiichiro, Watanabe, Koichiro, Yoshimura, Reiji, Tsuboi, Takashi, Yasui-Furukori, Norio, Kato, Masaki, Hongo, Seiji, Azekawa, Takaharu, Katsumoto, Eiichi, Edagawa, Koji, Nakagawa, Atsuo, Kikuchi, Toshiaki, Ueda, Hitoshi, Miki, Kazuhira
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis 12.12.2023; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Bipolar disorder; Bipolar Disorder - drug therapy; Humans; Japan - epidemiology; medication; outpatient treatment; Outpatients; Psychiatry; psychopharmacology; Psychotropic Drugs - therapeutic use; Retrospective Studies; Japan; outpatient treatment; Bipolar disorder; psychopharmacology; medication

Although the costs of bipolar disorder (BD) treatments are associated with local and universal factors, data from non-Western countries remain limited. The associations between clinical features and costs of outpatient pharmacotherapy have not been well characterize. To estimate the costs of outpati...