Prevalence and Determinants of Long-Term Utilization of Antidepressant Drugs: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Carlotta LunghiIppazio Cosimo AntonazzoSofia BuratoEmanuel RaschiVioletta ZoffoliEmanuele ForcesiElisa SangiorgiMarco MenchettiPasquale Roberge Elisabetta Poluzzi

Published in: Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment (2020)

Antidepressant long-term and chronic prescriptions are common in the Bologna area. Because longer treatment should be clinically motivated, these results strongly prompt the need to evaluate the actual relevance, as they may indicate potentially inappropriate prescription patterns.

Keyphrases

major depressive disorder
risk factors
bipolar disorder
drug induced
combination therapy