Data Element Name: | Number of Antipsychotic Medications Prescribed at Discharge | ||||||
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Collected For: | HBIPS-5 | ||||||
Definition: | The number of routinely scheduled antipsychotic medications prescribed to the patient at discharge as documented in the medical record. | ||||||
Suggested Data Collection Question: | What is the documented number of antipsychotic medications prescribed for the patient at discharge? | ||||||
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0-99 UTD= Unable to Determine | ||||||
Notes for Abstraction: | An antipsychotic medication is defined as any of a group of drugs, such as the phenothiazines, butyrophenones or serotonin-dopamine antagonists, which are used to treat psychosis. An antipsychotic medication is also called neuroleptic (refer to Appendix C, Table 10.0- Antipsychotic Medications).
All antipsychotic medications should be counted regardless of the indication for use or the reason documented for prescribing the antipsychotic medication. If the patient was in an acute-care hospital and had multiple admissions to the psychiatric unit during his or her hospitalization, this information should be abstracted only once at the time of discharge from the hospital. If the patient is on two forms of the same medication i.e., po and IM, this would be counted as one antipsychotic medication. Only use Antipsychotic NOS in the following situation:
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