Agbonile Imafidon O, Famuyiwa Oluwole
Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, PMB 1102, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Professor of Psychiatry, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, email
Int Psychiatry. 2009 Oct 1;6(4):96-98. eCollection 2009 Oct.
Psychopharmacotherapy dominates the therapeutic arsenal of psychiatrists and, not surprisingly, psychotropic drugs are widely consumed in psychiatric practice. The pattern of prescribing of these drugs needs to be appraised in terms of 'rational drug use', which may be defined as 'the use of the least number of drugs to obtain the best possible effects in the shortest possible time and at a reasonable cost' (Gross, 1981).
心理药物治疗在精神科医生的治疗手段中占据主导地位，不出所料，精神药物在精神科实践中被广泛使用。这些药物的处方模式需要从“合理用药”的角度进行评估，合理用药可定义为“使用最少数量的药物，在尽可能短的时间内以合理的成本获得最佳效果”（格罗斯，1981年）。
