Psychiatric News (10/27) reports, “The percentage of young children with private insurance who were prescribed antipsychotics declined from 2009 to 2017,” investigators concluded in a study that looked at “trends in antipsychotic prescribing to children aged two to seven years who were privately insured, as recorded in a commercial claims database,” with a particular focus “on children who received prescriptions for first- and second-generation antipsychotics from 2007 through 2017.” The findings were published online Oct. 19 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Prescribing of Antipsychotics to Young Children Is Declining, Study Suggests, Psychiatric News, October 27, 2020