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The revised and updated 13th edition of 'The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry' provides up-to-date information, expert guidance on prescribing practice in mental health, including drug choice, treatment of adverse effects and how to augment or switch medications. It covers a wide range of topics including pharmacological interventions for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety, and many other less common conditions....
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"The goal for this text is to emphasize that treatment of psychosis must be tailored to the needs of individual patients. While a given diagnosis may suggest principle mechanisms under prescription guidelines, standard treatment of psychosis is unfeasible due to no two patients suffering from an identical illness. This text therefore aims to contrast the one-size-fits-all treatment that general medicine has taken for granted, and instead focuses on...
10) The Maudsley deprescribing guidelines: antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs
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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2024.
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"The term 'deprescribing' originates from geriatric medicine where polypharmacy in frail patients can cause more harm than benefit.1 Deprescribing is increasingly recognised to be a key component of good prescribing - reducing doses when they are too high, and stopping medications when they are no longer needed.2 This process cannot occur in a vacuum of theoretical concerns but should take into account the patient's health, current level of functioning...
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Elsevier, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Sixth edition.
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"Focusing on the essential aspects of pharmacology you need to know, Brody's Human Pharmacology, 6th Edition, keeps you fully up to date with all that's new in the field. Streamlined content, a new organizational approach, enhanced online components, and thoroughly updated information ensure your grasp of key concepts and prepare you for exams. Nearly 500 full-color illustrations explain important processes, while color-coded boxes for major drugs,...
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Exploring the nature of sociology and sociological research, and their application to health and health care, this book focuses on the nature of sociology and sociological research; the social patterning of health and disease; the social aspects of illness and dying; and, the organisation and delivery of health care.