Patterns of drug use in psychiatric inpatient wards
- PMID: 489528
Patterns of drug use in psychiatric inpatient wards
Abstract
Drug use was monitored in a total of 2,592 psychiatric inpatients in 6 hospitals. The efficacy was rated as satisfactory in 78% of the drug exposures. Nearly 37% of the patients had an adverse reaction. However, only 1.5% of the reactions were noted as being of major severity.