Introduction. Antipsychotics are the base of therapeutic in schizophrenia; in its prescription potential benefits and risks should be assessed. Objective. Identify patterns of prescription of psychoactive drugs in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and related disorders. Design. Observational, descriptive, longitudinal, retrospective. Setting. Víctor Larco Herrera Hospital. Participants. Patients with diagnosis of F2 category (ICD-10); older than18 years of age, with a minimum stay of 15 days and admitted in 2015. Interventions. The medical records were evaluated and the data was collected in a datasheet, which were later poured into a Microsoft Excel 2010 database and analyzed. Main outcome measures. Patterns of prescription. Results. We reviewed 174 medical records. The most frequent diagnosis was schizophrenia (72.4%). The prescription was grouped into three stages: Start of treat...

Since neuropsychiatric disorders are now the first component of disease burden in Peru, translating this into high prevalence rates for these conditions; and considering that - paradoxically - the Government has not assumed its responsibility, there is a need for proposing a reform of mental health management considering these fundamental aspects: 1) The Ministry of Health must assume its responsibility prioritizing mental health as a public health policy, creating a General Direction for Mental Health; 2) Psychiatric care must be restructured, joining forces with primary health care within the local health systems so that alternative community-centered models may be promoted within their social scope; 3) Personal dignity and human rights of every subject must be preserved; 4) Modernization of the current psychiatric institutions, changing their current hegemonic role to a superspecializ...

Since neuropsychiatric disorders are now the first component of disease burden in Peru, translating this into high prevalence rates for these conditions; and considering that - paradoxically - the Government has not assumed its responsibility, there is a need for proposing a reform of mental health management considering these fundamental aspects: 1) The Ministry of Health must assume its responsibility prioritizing mental health as a public health policy, creating a General Direction for Mental Health; 2) Psychiatric care must be restructured, joining forces with primary health care within the local health systems so that alternative community-centered models may be promoted within their social scope; 3) Personal dignity and human rights of every subject must be preserved; 4) Modernization of the current psychiatric institutions, changing their current hegemonic role to a superspecializ...