Many patients with bipolar disorder are reaching old age, but whether they are receiving evidence-based psychotropic treatment remains unclear. Our objective was to describe current psychotropic prescribing patterns in a large Canadian late-life bipolar sample.Population-based cross-sectional study of 1443 bipolar disorder patients aged ≥ 66, discharged from a psychiatric hospitalization in Ontario, Canada from 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2012. We described psychotropic medication prescribing within 30 days post-discharge.Prescription of ≥2 psychotropic medications was highly prevalent (81.5

作者：Soham, Rej；Nathan, Herrmann；Kenneth, Shulman；Hadas D, Fischer；Kinwah, Fung；Andrea, Gruneir

来源：International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2016 年