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Guidance on Strategies to Promote Best Practice in Antipsychotic Prescribing for Children and Adolescents

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This Guidance document gives a “bird’s eye view” of strategies to support best practice prescribing of antipsychotics for youth and summarizes the available evidence and principles to support these strategies. 

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PEP19-ANTIPSYCHOTIC-BP
Publication Date
March 2019
Last Reviewed
February 2019

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