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A Practitioner's Guide to Prescribing Antiepileptics and Mood Stabilizers for Adults with Intellectual DisabilitiesA Practitioner’s Guide to Prescribing Diazepam for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

A Practitioner's Guide to Prescribing Antiepileptics and Mood Stabilizers for Adults with... [We developed this diazepam guideline using drug prescribing ­information and reviewing the available literature on relevant neuropsychiatric disorders in populations without intellectual disabilities because of the dearth of available literature on the population with intellectual disabilities. This guideline includes indications; contraindications; assessments prior to and during treatment; dosing with particular focus on dosing modifications required by drug–drug interactions, personal characteristics, or genetic variants; and adverse drug reactions. The procedures contained in this guideline may not fully account for all of the possible risks of treatment in this population because of the limited studies available; thus, there will be a need to periodically update this guideline as new information becomes available. Nevertheless, we believe that this guideline provides a useful resource for clinicians who treat epilepsy, anxiety, or catatonia in adult individuals with ­intellectual disabilities. A diazepam drug utilization review that summarizes this guideline is described.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Practitioner's Guide to Prescribing Antiepileptics and Mood Stabilizers for Adults with Intellectual DisabilitiesA Practitioner’s Guide to Prescribing Diazepam for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

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Publisher
Springer US
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
ISBN
978-1-4614-2011-8
Pages
75 –94
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-2012-5_4
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Abstract

[We developed this diazepam guideline using drug prescribing ­information and reviewing the available literature on relevant neuropsychiatric disorders in populations without intellectual disabilities because of the dearth of available literature on the population with intellectual disabilities. This guideline includes indications; contraindications; assessments prior to and during treatment; dosing with particular focus on dosing modifications required by drug–drug interactions, personal characteristics, or genetic variants; and adverse drug reactions. The procedures contained in this guideline may not fully account for all of the possible risks of treatment in this population because of the limited studies available; thus, there will be a need to periodically update this guideline as new information becomes available. Nevertheless, we believe that this guideline provides a useful resource for clinicians who treat epilepsy, anxiety, or catatonia in adult individuals with ­intellectual disabilities. A diazepam drug utilization review that summarizes this guideline is described.]

Published: Feb 1, 2012

Keywords: Suicidal Ideation; Generalize Anxiety Disorder; Intellectual Disability; Therapeutic Drug Monitoring; Panic Disorder

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