Ramya Padmavathy Radha Krishnan's research while affiliated with The University of Sydney and other places

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Objective To determine antipsychotic utilisation patterns in Australian adults from 2005 to 2021, with a focus on on-label and off-label prescriptions. Methods We examined antipsychotic dispensing trends in adults from 2005 to 2021 using a 10% sample of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) dataset, which contains patient-level information on m...

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... In our study, we have identified significant discrepancies in drug mentions in English versus Spanish tweets, which coincides with these differences in the prescribing patterns worldwide. Specifically, we noted a predominance of mentions of second generation antipsychotics in English tweets which is consistent with the increase of prescriptions of these drugs in countries such as the United States, Australia or the United Kingdom in the past decades (Hálfdánarson et al., 2017;Radha Krishnan et al., 2023;Su et al., 2020). Whereas in Spanish, there was a greater proportion of tweets related to mood stabilizers. ...