Antidepressant prescribing in general practice: A call to action (2021)
Australian Journal of General Practice, Volume 50, Issue 12, December 2021 Antidepressant prescribing in general practice: A call to action Katharine A Wallis Maria Donald Joanna Moncrieff doi: 10.31128/AJGP-02-21-5828 The Mental health: Productivity Commission inquiry report (2020) recommended as a ‘priority reform’ that we ‘[a]ddress adverse outcomes from prescribing practices of mental health medication’. 1 The report states that ‘while antipsychotic prescribing in aged care facilities is one element of this … arguably a greater concern, given its frequency, is antidepressant prescribing’. 1 The report recommends that general practitioner (GP) ‘mental health training and professional development’ be improved to increase ‘adherence to evidence-based clinical practices (including the clinical appropriateness of GP’s [sic] prescribing practices for mental health medication, management of medication side effects a...