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‘I'd think more about safety rather than efficacy’: A Qualitative Study of Antidepressant Prescribing and Decision Making in Primary Care in England

2026-01-23

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<p>BackgroundConcerns around inappropriate antidepressant prescribing continue to be raised. To prevent avoidable harm to patients, including adverse effects and withdrawal effects, it is important to understand potential overprescribing of antidepressants. This study aims to explore how primary care prescribers rationalise antidepressant prescribing and deprescribing decisions, and which contextual factors influe...

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Literature Corpus work: 26f09439-50bf-564a-8101-781e35d094bf
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6th75_v1

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