Prescribing on psychiatric acute wards at four hospitals

摘要

Guidelines for prescribing psychotropic medication are available from a variety of sources; however, the case mix complexity on acute psychiatric wards might be expected to present challenges to adherence to these standards. Dr Hodgson and colleagues set out to audit prescribing on acute psychiatric wards at four hospitals covering similar catchment populations to ascertain practice. Copyright © 2008 Wiley Interface Ltd