Physician Prescribing Practices of Vitamin D in a Psychiatric Hospital

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

Lewis Opler¹  Tammie Lee Demler¹  Kimberly B. Mulcahy¹  Eileen Trigoboff¹ 

[1] Drs. Trigoboff, Demler, and Mulcahy are with Buffalo Psychiatric Center, New York State Office of Mental Health, and State University of New York, University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Buffalo, New York; Drs. Trigoboff and Demler are with State University of New York, University at Buffalo School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Buffalo, New York; and Dr. Opler is with the Predoctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York.

关键词: Vitamin D;    deficiency;    psychiatric inpatients;    schizophrenia;    depression;    multiple sclerosis;    mood disorders;    prescribing practices;   

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学科分类：精神健康和精神病学

来源: Matrix Medical Communications, LLC

【 摘 要 】

Vitamin D supplementation has become an increasingly popular prescribing practice, despite our limited knowledge of both the definition and degree of deficiency as well as the expected benefits or risks of exogenous administration. Many of the hypothesized benefits of vitamin D supplementation include a variety of improvements in mental health; however, these claims are not consistently or robustly supported by current research. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of what is currently known about vitamin D deficiency and about outcomes of supplementation as well as a summary of the data relative to prescribing practices for inpatients in an urban psychiatric hospital.

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