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What the eye doesn't see: drugs psychiatrists and GPs don't know their patients are on

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nicholas A. Clarke*
Affiliation:
Miriam Marks Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 1PJ and UMDS Guy's Campus, London SE1 9RT
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Personal experience shows that discrepancies are common when out-patient psychiatric medication records are checked with the information held by a patient's GP. This could lead to duplicated or conflicting treatment regimes, dangerous drug interactions, abuse of prescribed drugs, and failure to monitor therapeutic drug levels.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1993

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