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Routine Plasma Level Determination to Compare Actual vs Expected Plasma Levels at Psychiatric Inpatient Admission

NCT00627510 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 161

Last updated 2008-03-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Compliance with treatment is notoriously low in psychiatric patients. Traditional methods of monitoring compliance, however, may underreport nonadherence to treatment. In this study, actual plasma levels at admission - which are ROUTINELY taken at the Dept Psychiatry of the Paracelsus Medical University - were compared to plasma levels that can be expected from the prescribed preadmission dosing regimen. This was done to give treating psychiatrists a quantitatively precise idea of how frequently they can expect their patients to have plasma levels that are below the level of medication as intended by the prescribing physician.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Routine psychiatric inpatient treatment

Routine psychiatric inpatient treatment. This is not an interventional study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical University Innsbruck

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gerald Zernig, MD · Medical University Innsbruck

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-06-30
Primary Completion
2005-07-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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