Why the study?
Antidepressants are commonly prescribed and clear national guidelines exist for treatment sequencing, but trends and variation across English primary care required examination.
Population
English primary care national and practice-level prescription data
Design
Retrospective longitudinal study
Authors
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Marked variation in antidepressant prescribing across practices supports targeted audits; leaves open drivers of sustained growth and guideline adherence.
Antidepressant prescribing in English primary care has more than tripled over two decades, with substantial unwarranted variation between practices in the prescribing of specific drugs like dosulepin.
Bogowicz et al. (2021) studied this question.
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