Therapeutic Drug Level Monitoring of Antipsychotics at an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital.
Nisha Chandrakant BhavsarJulie Ann DopheideTimothy Eugene BotelloMengxi WangPublished in: Therapeutic drug monitoring (2023)
Most antipsychotic drug levels were inappropriately drawn, emphasizing the complexity and potential for errors in TDM. Although more patients were prescribed risperidone, clozapine had the highest TDM rate. Clinicians were more likely to keep antipsychotic regimens unchanged for appropriately drawn levels and adjust doses for inappropriately drawn levels.