The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
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Aust N Z J Psychiatry · Oct 2002
Pro re nata medication for psychoses: an audit of practice in two metropolitan hospitals.
To examine the use of pro re nata (PRN) (as needed) medication in hospitalized patients with psychotic disorders. ⋯ Pro re nata medications comprised a significant part of the treatment which psychotic patients received. The common practice of coprescribing PRN typical antipsychotics with scheduled atypical antipsychotics is potentially problematical since administration of PRN medication is associated with significant medication related morbidity. Preferential use of benzodiazepines as PRN agents may minimize this morbidity and foster subsequent compliance with regularly prescribed antipsychotics.