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Assembly Votes Challenge Threats to Patient Care
Ken Hausman. Psychiatric News, 2006-12-01
Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessAssembly Votes Challenge Threats to Patient CareKen HausmanKen HausmanSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Dec 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.23.0004Patient care issues had a prominent place on the agenda for the APA Assembly's November meeting in Washington, D.C., and several dealt with prescribing concerns in a health care environment that is not always patient friendly.The representatives passed a paper, for example, whose intent is to“ protect and encourage prescribing” that is both clinically and financially “appropriate.” The proposal addressed the skyrocketing use of drug formularies and pharmacy benefit managers and emphasized that formularies are difficult to use in psychiatry “because of low nosologic specificity, lack of interchangeability of medicines within a class, and a lack of understanding of the mechanism of action of psychotropic medications.” As a result, the Assembly voted to support pharmacy benefit managers that “seek to manage utilization by improving quality, such as by promulgating scientific standards of prescribing through markers of best practices and education.” The vote also included a call to collaborate with the AMA and other specialty organizations on this issue.The Assembly also issued a call to halt the practice of “managed care pharmacists inciting patients to change their medication regimens without disclosing their profit motive.” Assembly representatives were angry about reports of pharmacists affiliated with managed care plans telling patients that they can save money if they switch to a generic or a brand-name drug on the insurer's formulary and urging them to ask their physicians to change their medication.
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APA 7th
Hausman, K. (2006). Assembly Votes Challenge Threats to Patient Care. Psychiatric News. https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.23.0004
Vancouver
Hausman K. Assembly Votes Challenge Threats to Patient Care. Psychiatric News. 2006. doi:10.1176/pn.41.23.0004.
BibTeX
@article{hausman2006-8f1b2555,
author = {Hausman, Ken},
title = {{Assembly Votes Challenge Threats to Patient Care}},
journal = {Psychiatric News},
year = {2006},
doi = {10.1176/pn.41.23.0004},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.23.0004}
}
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- Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessAssembly Votes Challenge Threats to Patient CareKen HausmanKen HausmanSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Dec 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.41.23.0004Patient care issues had a prominent place on the agenda for the APA Assembly's November meeting in Washington, D.C., and several dealt with prescribing concerns in a health care environment that is not always patient friendly.The representatives passed a paper, for example, whose intent is to“ protect and encourage prescribing” that is both clinically and financially “appropriate.”
Why it matters
This report describes APA Assembly votes on patient care issues, including a paper intended to protect and encourage clinically and financially appropriate prescribing. It notes concerns that drug formularies are difficult to use in psychiatry because of low nosologic specificity, lack of interchangeability of medicines within a class, and lack of understanding of how psychotropic medications work.
Study details
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 22/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on institution's track record, so that was left out: it earned 21 of the 97 points we could judge it on, which is 22 out of 100.
| Component | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Psychiatric News) |
| Journal's citation record | 0 / 4 | Psychiatric News: journal h-index 17 (OpenAlex, 2026-10-29) |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 1 / 5 | 2006 — older than 20 years, still counted |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | 0 / 7 | Cited 0 times (OpenAlex, 2026-10-10) |
| Citations per year | 0 / 5 | 0.0 citations a year over 22 year(s) since 2006 |
| Impact for its field and year | 0 / 6 | Cited 0.0× the average for papers of its field and year (OpenAlex FWCI) |
| Cited by studies here | 0 / 6 | No other study in this library cites it |
| Still being cited | 0 / 4 | Cited 0 times in 2024–2026 (2026 still in progress; OpenAlex) |
| Senior author's track record | 1 / 4 | Last-listed author Ken Hausman: h-index 5 (OpenAlex, whole career) |
| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Multi-centre collaboration | 0 / 3 | OpenAlex lists 0 institution(s) in 0 countries — scores zero (affiliation lists can be incomplete) |
| Indexed in PubMed | 1 / 2 | Not in PubMed, but has a DOI |
| Free to read | 0 / 2 | Behind a paywall — scores zero |
| Points | 21 / 97 | Scored on 19 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 21 of the 97 points we could judge it on is 22 out of 100. |
| Total | 22 / 100 | — |
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