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Incidence and prevalence of primary care antidepressant prescribing in children and young people in England, 1998-2017: A population-based cohort study
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Background
The use of antidepressants in children and adolescents remains controversial. We examined trends over time and variation in antidepressant prescribing in children and young people in England and whether the drugs prescribed reflected UK licensing and guidelines.
Methods and findings
QResearch is a primary care database containing anonymised healthcare records of over 32 million patients from more than 1,500 general practices across... Expand abstract
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003215
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS Medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 7
- Article number:
- e1003215
- Place of publication:
- United States
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-06-23
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1549-1676
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1549-1277
- Pmid:
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32697803
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English
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1123139
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pubs:1123139
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- Jack et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 Jack et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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