Duration of medication use, medication dose, and polypharmacy may have been associated with differences in outcomes and were not explored in this analysis. In addition, medication exposure after infection could not be evaluated for patients who were transferred to outside facilities for medical ...
In a study of HCV-infected patients receiving methadone maintenance, 56% were receiving psychiatric medications prior to the start of IFN therapy, and 88% were taking a psychiatric medication by the end of treatment.[87] 3.4 Substitution/Maintenance Therapy Substitution therapy with methadone or ...
Medical conditions related to the onset of delirium, including prior delirium [2,39], infections [2,5,17,18], adverse effects of medication [41], urinary tract infection [18,42], physical disability [19,39], physical comorbid [4,5,38], diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder or other psy...
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giving the opportunity to be clinically applicable for therapy and taking into account the frequent polymedication of a real life setting. Since metabolic ratio have not been formally validated in the presence of on-going drug treatment and since compliance could never been ruled out, TDM, when ...
[127,128,129]. A statistically significant number of subjects showed few or no side-effects related to the medication [129]. A meta-analytic study of ketamine use in general palliative care found that it can be extremely effective in patients with refractory depression, especially those with ...
Finally, a substantial percentage of subjects have received more than one psychotropic medication, and the extent to which drug interactions confound the picture is difficult to assess. In addition to prescribed medications, the potential influence of other commonly used psychotropic agents, such as ...
Beyond medication profiles and safety, there were a number of papers on suicide, service use and user characteristics. Few of the research studies that we found were directly focused on mental health policy, but their findings often have important policy implications. A more detailed narrative of ...
use as these were deemed high priority by clinicians. WhatsApp forums were led by primary care nurse trainees on a rotating basis (nurses from different participating PHCs took turns every two weeks) and topics varied depending on need (e.g., medication management and side-effects, psychosis)...
a follow-up of the effect that these comorbidities could have on the development of the disorder has to be explored but this analysis is outside of the aims of the present study. Nevertheless, the high presence of suicide risk and depression could be a delicate subject to be considered durin...