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- Title
Discontinuing medication as a phase of treatment.
- Authors
Sadeghi, Leila
- Abstract
There is a paucity of research on medication de-prescribing. Currently, the field of child psychiatry offers more evidence on how to start children and adolescents on medication than on how long to treat them, and how to best discontinue the medication. Evidence-based and clinically rooted treatment plans for how to discontinue medicine are just as important to develop as effective treatment plans in how to start medicine. This article serves to provide some guiding principles in the appropriate and safe discontinuation of psychotropic medicines for children and adolescents.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of parents; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; CHILD psychopathology; COMMUNICATION; DRUG monitoring; MEDICAL protocols; PATIENT education; PSYCHIATRIC drugs; EVIDENCE-based medicine; POLYPHARMACY; TREATMENT duration; INAPPROPRIATE prescribing (Medicine)
- Publication
Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter, 2017, Vol 33, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1058-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cbl.30216