The purpose of this study is to assist the management of psychotropic drugs and inspection of the prescription on preparing a medicine. The range of investigation is the data of 6,445(29%) prescriptions involving the psychotropic drugs among the total 22,233 prescriptions of outpatients from August 1st to August 31th, 1991. In analyzing method we classified the number of prescriptions, distribution of sex, age, clinical department, disease, kinds of prescribed drugs, and prescribing frequency through these 6,445 prescriptions. The result of study were as follows : The sex distribution showed 59% and 41% in female and male. The age distribution were most in 50´age. The distribution by clinical department listed the internal medicine(51.9%), neuropsychiatry(17.8%) and neurosurgery(12.8%) in descending oryder. The rated of each disease were 33%, 17%, 15% and 10% for circulatory disease, mental disorder, digestive disease and nervous disease. The prescribing frequency of psychotropic drugs listed the diazepam(26.8%), lorazepam(15.6%), phenobarbital(11.6%) and clobazam(9.6%) in descending order.
The above results showed that the most frequency in Psychotropic drugs were benzodiazepines(21%), Therefore the usage of a vast range in psychotropic drugs
Suggests possibility of iatrogenic drug abuse. Also this serious problems must be considered of that a uniform prescribing tendency of partial benzodiazepines and preferring tendency of specific drugs in specific department showed.
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