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Table 3 QI values for patients with major depressive disorder

From: The characteristics of discharge prescriptions including pro re nata psychotropic medications for patients with schizophrenia and major depressive disorder from the survey of the “Effectiveness of guidelines for dissemination and education in psychiatric treatment (EGUIDE)” project

QI (n = 1022)

QI values for regular prescriptions

QI values for prescriptions including PRN

QI ratio between regular prescriptions and prescriptions including PRN

Antidepressant monotherapy ratio (n, %)

774 (75.7)

766 (75.0)

0.990

Antidepressant monotherapy ratio without any other psychotropics (n, %)

97 (9.5)

76 (7.4)

0.784

No prescription ratio of anxiolytics and hypnotics (n, %)

251 (24.6)

218 (21.3)

0.869

No prescription ratio of antipsychotics (n, %)

516 (50.5)

482 (47.2)

0.934

No prescription ratio of mood stabilizers and antiepileptics (n, %)

891 (87.2)

891 (87.2)

1.00

No prescription ratio of antiparkinsonian drugs (n, %)

999 (96.8)

985 (96.4)

0.996

  1. PRN pro re nata, QI quality indicator