Global trigger tool in child psychiatry: A treatment safety evaluation in adolescents with an acute psychotic episode.

CONCLUSION: We recommend three triggers, "Abrupt medication stop", "Prescribing of extrapyramidal symptoms corrector", and "Hospital readmission within 30 days", with reasonable positive predictive value for incorporation into routine systems for patient safety monitoring in adolescents with an acute psychotic episode. Antipsychotic-induced extrapyramidal symptoms were more prevalent in older adolescents and patients with fewer lifetime hospital admissions. These patients need to be carefully monitored to ensure patient safety. PMID: 31594255 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Int J Risk Saf Med Source Type: research