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Table 1 Demographics and psychiatric medication

From: Off-label prescription of psychiatric drugs by non-psychiatrist physicians in three general hospitals in Germany

 

On-label use

Off-label use

No psychiatric medication

Total

Gender

 Male

  Count

76

62

249

387

  Percent within psych. medication (%)

38.8

38.3

40.6

39.9

 Female

  Count

120

100

364

584

  % within psych. mediation (%)

61.2

61.7

59.4

60.1

Mean age (years)

62.9*

67.5*,+

64.2+

64.3

Total

 Count

196

162

613

971

 Percent within psych. medication (%)

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

  1. * p = 0.018,+ p = 0.047