The Negotiation of Prescribing Decisions: Some Good Practice Issues

Medicines Management in Mental Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 133-144

  Quirk, Alan ^a   Chaplin, Rob ^a   Lelliott, Paul ^a   Seale, Clive ^b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Block communication; Conversational solution to central dilemma for psychiatrists; Delivering information on adverse effects; Engaging with service users' concerns; Examining shared decision making; Negotiated prescribing decision; Negotiation of prescribing decisions good practice issues; Sedation and mental clouding with antipsychotic medication; Service user (SU) and consultant psychiatrist (C); Therapist service user alliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891012264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444316155.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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