• Aust Fam Physician · Jun 2011

    Antidepressant use.

    • Christopher Harrison, Helena Britt, and Janice Charles.
    • Australian GP Statistics & Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
    • Aust Fam Physician. 2011 Jun 1; 40 (6): 365.

    AbstractThe recent 2009-2010 National Prescribing Service (NPS) Evaluation Report(1) used Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescribing data to examine antidepressant prescribing. The report stated that general practitioner antidepressant prescribing in 2007-2009 was lower than expected due to NPS interventions. This article tests this statement using 12 years of nationally representative BEACH data, which includes data on antidepressants prescribed by GPs - not just those subsidised through the PBS.

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