Change of prescription for patients with schizophrenia or major depressive disorder during admission: real-world prescribing surveys from the effectiveness of guidelines for dissemination and education psychiatric treatment project

Table 2 Changes in the prescription of psychotropics in subjects with schizophrenia and major depression disorder during admission

	schizophrenia (main drug: antipsychotics)	major depression disorder (main drug: antidepressants)	p value^*1
No change in psychotropics	404 (18.5%) ^*2	109 (12.2%) ^*2	p < 0.00001
Any change in psychotropics	1775 (81.5%)	782 (87.8%)
1) Change the type of main drug	860 (39.5%)	331 (37.1%)
2) Change the dose or number of main drug without 1)	700(32.1%)^*2	223 (25.0%)^*2
3) Change other psychotropics without 1), 2)	215 (9.9%)^*2	228 (25.6%)^*2

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