Open Journal of Psychiatry, 2012, 2, 340-346 OJPsych http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojpsych.2012.224048 Published Online November 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojpsych/)
International variation in antipsychotic prescribing for schizophrenia: Pooled results from the research on East Asia psychotropic prescription (reap) studies Hiroto Ito1*, Yasuyuki Okumura1, Teruhiko Higuchi2, Chay Hoon Tan3, Naotaka Shinfuku4 1
Department of Social Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan 3 National University of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore 4 School of Human Sciences, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan Email: *
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Received 1 October 2012; revised 1 November 2012; accepted 10 November 2012
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify updated trends in antipsychotic prescribing patterns in patients with schizophrenia in East Asia. Methods: Using the data from the 2001, 2004, and 2008 Research on East Asia Psychotropic Prescription (REAP) studies, we compared the proportions of acute inpatients (stay
