{"title":"Joint primary and secondary care study of lithium prescribing and monitoring","authors":"Seema Vekaria, Chetan Shah, Tim Gale, Cathy Geeson, Maxine Davis, Janet Weir, Promilla Singh","doi":"10.1002/pnp.823","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Lithium is licensed for the treatment and prophylaxis of mania, bipolar disorder, recurrent depression and intentional self‐harming behaviour. Despite its effectiveness, lithium use is complicated by its narrow therapeutic range. In 2009, the National Patient Safety Agency issued a safety alert highlighting the issues and requested NHS organisations ensure reliable systems and monitoring were in place. This article explores how well the guidelines are followed in terms of lithium prescribing and monitoring across primary and secondary care.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":"13 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pnp.823","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Lithium is licensed for the treatment and prophylaxis of mania, bipolar disorder, recurrent depression and intentional self‐harming behaviour. Despite its effectiveness, lithium use is complicated by its narrow therapeutic range. In 2009, the National Patient Safety Agency issued a safety alert highlighting the issues and requested NHS organisations ensure reliable systems and monitoring were in place. This article explores how well the guidelines are followed in terms of lithium prescribing and monitoring across primary and secondary care.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.