Dual Antidepressant Consumption in the Czech Republic Author: Kristýna Čiháková Supervisor: PharmDr. Pavel Horký, Ph.D. Consultant: PharmDr. Kateřina Malá, Ph.D. Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University Introduction: Antidepressants are widely used in many indications. Dual antidepressants are prescribed in treatment of depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, in pain therapy and insomnia. Besides that, there are trials to prove the efficacy of dual antidepressants in different indications. Generally, antidepressant consumption in the Czech Republic is increasing. The question is, what the real proportion of dual antidepressant consumption is. Objective: As the objective, dual antidepressant consumption was analysed. Methods: The consumption of antidepressants venlafaxine, duloxetine, mirtazapine and mianserin was performed in the period from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2018. The State Institute for Drug Control (SÚKL) database was used. The data were described by descriptive statistics. The drug consumption in Defined Daily Doses (DDD) was converted into Defined Daily Dose/1,000 inhabitants/day (DID). In addition, comparison of use of particular dual antidepressant doses was made. Results: Overall, the relative consumption of dual...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:434385 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Čiháková, Kristýna |
| Contributors | Horký, Pavel, Malý, Josef |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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