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European Psychiatry, Nov 1, 2002

A study was conducted to assess differences in psychotropic prescription (PP) in various non-psyc... more A study was conducted to assess differences in psychotropic prescription (PP) in various non-psychiatric hospital settings. After adjustment for demographic, medical and psychological status, rates of PP were significantly lower for surgical, intensive care and outpatients and higher for geriatric patients than for patients in other settings, suggesting inadequate consideration of psychiatric problems in certain contexts, in particular intensive care units.

European psychiatry, May 1, 2003

ResumenSe realizó un estudio para evaluar las diferencias en la prescripción de psicotropos (PP) ... more ResumenSe realizó un estudio para evaluar las diferencias en la prescripción de psicotropos (PP) en diversos entornos hospitalarios no psiquiátricos. Después del ajuste para la situación demográfica y el estado médico y psicológico, las tasas de PP fueron significativamente más bajas para los pacientes quirúrgicos, de cuidados intensivos y ambulatorios y más altas para los pacientes geriátricos que para los pacientes en otros entornos, lo que indica una consideración inadecuada de los problemas psiquiátricos en algunos contextos, en particular, las unidades de cuidados intensivos.

L'Encéphale, Feb 1, 2009

The necessary evidence of new therapies of clinical interest extends beyond clinical trials in a ... more The necessary evidence of new therapies of clinical interest extends beyond clinical trials in a less controlled population and closer to clinical practice justified since several years the need of conducting observational, noninterventional studies. Observational studies must include epidemiological (quantitative observational) data to define prevalence and natural history of the target conditions. Moreover, pharmacological interventions in "naturalistic" patients populations, selected by clinicians as per clinical judgment within the scope of the target disease will allow to generate data to complement clinical trials. Clinical trials designed to show robust data on efficacy and tolerability particularly during registration trials must be complemented by robust observational research to confirm and better describe clinical effectiveness in the target population. A noninterventional, observational trial is a study where the medicinal product(s) is (are) prescribed in the usual manner in accordance with the terms of the marketing authorization. The assignment of the patient to a particular therapeutic strategy is not decided in advance by a trial protocol but falls within current practice and the prescription of the medicine is clearly separated from the decision to include the patient in the study. No additional diagnosis or monitoring procedures shall be applied to the patients and epidemiological methods shall be used for the analysis of collected data. Olanzapine is a new antipsychotic therapy registered in Europe for the treatment of schizophrenia since 1996. The primary objective of this observational research was to study the evolution of the olanzapine dosage under naturalistic settings. Secondary objectives included patients characteristics, severity of disease, therapeutic evolution and coprescriptions, in a patient's cohort, suffering from schizophrenia, adult patients, diagnosis based on ICD-10; patients were followed during a total of 12 months. The cohort study was conducted in France. Between the period of June 2000 and February 2001, 407 psychiatrics randomized to participate in the study had consolidated the patient's cohort. A total of 1810 patients were included, 1093 (60, 4%) male, 717 (39, 6%) females. Age was recorded for a total of 1802 (99, 6%) patients, mean age was 37.8 years as per inclusion criteria and patients consent according to current regulations. Patients entered in the cohort as per clinicians decision underwent a treatment with olanzapine during an outpatient's consultation or at hospitalization. More than two thirds of the patients were followed up during 12 months after onset of this treatment. Clinical outcome was assessed at three, six, nine and 12 months following cohort inclusion using the following tools: CGI, PANSS, Calgary and GAF; as per CGI 78% of the patients cohort were severely ill, the mean PANSS score was 94.1. At second month of treatment clinicians were requested to very well document any changes in olanzapine dosage as well as reasons for the dosage modifications and potential coprescriptions. The daily mean dosage of olanzapine was 9.5mg at initiation of treatment, 10.5mg after one month and 11.2mg after 12 months of follow-up. The increase of the dosage after one month was associated with factors such as younger age, schizophrenia diagnosis and severity of the symptoms as measured by CGI and PANSS scores evolution, low initial dosage and hospitalization at treatment initiation. Within the 1810 participants included in the cohort, 1383 (76.5%) received a coprescrition of a psychotropic, for example, 811 (44.8%) a benzodiazepine, 506 (28.0%) an antidepressant. Among the patients cohort that were followed during 12 months, all the clinical and patient-functioning indicators progressed in the direction of a significant improvement.

European Neuropsychopharmacology, Sep 1, 2008

Objective: There is an ongoing debate regarding doses of antipsychotic in stable schizophrenia pa... more Objective: There is an ongoing debate regarding doses of antipsychotic in stable schizophrenia patients. This French pilot study was undertaken to estimate two strategies of treatment with olanzapine in stable phasemaintenance of the acute dose or dose reduction. Method: 6 months open, randomized trial comparing two strategies of treatment with olanzapine in 97 schizophrenia stabilized outpatients. Results: Mean daily doses at 6 months in the olanzapine full dose (OFD) and reduction dose (ORD) groups were respectively 18.1 mg and 13.3 mg. 4 patients (8%) relapsed in the ORD group versus 3 (6%) in the OFD group. A secondary analysis reflecting more real life setting showed a numerically higher rate of relapse in the dose reduction group (20% versus 10%). Conclusion: These results suggest that maintenance treatment with olanzapine, beyond 4 months, with the same dose that was effective acutely could be useful to prevent new psychiatric hospitalization.

Journal of Affective Disorders, May 1, 2011

Background: Recently, an unexpected 3-fold higher screen positive rate for bipolar disorder was f... more Background: Recently, an unexpected 3-fold higher screen positive rate for bipolar disorder was found among low-income American patients who were seeking primary care at an urban general medicine clinic as compared with the general population of the United States. The social health system in France is characterized by its open access, where most bipolar patients ask for care and where the major problem is diagnosis by the general practitioner (GP). Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of bipolar disorder among patients attending GP offices in France. Methods: This observational, single visit survey was performed among 10,265 patients (47.2 ± 18.0 years old, 40% males) attending primary care in 95 GP offices in France. The participating GP made available an MDQ-French version questionnaire to all patients aged 15 years and over, going to his office during a full week, independently of the reason for medical consulting. In addition to the MDQ-French version questionnaire, patients answered items concerning sex, age, professional situation and marital state. Results: One thousand twenty-five (1025) patients did not complete the questionnaire and were excluded from the analysis. Of the 9240 analyzed questionnaires, 8.3% were classified as MDQ positives (MDQ+). MDQ+ patients were significantly younger (41.6 years versus 46.6 years for MDQ− patients, p b 0.0001), more frequently divorced or separated (19.2% versus 8.6%, p b 0.0001) and more frequently unemployed (15.2% versus 6.4%, p b 0.0001). The gender distribution was not significantly different between the two groups. Conclusions: The prevalence of receiving positive screening results for bipolar disease in 9240 patients consulting 95 randomly selected french general practitioners was 8.3%, as assessed by the MDQ questionnaire. This is a similar and unexpected high value as that reported for lowincome american patients (9.8%). Besides low socioeconomic status, other factors should explain the high screen positive rate for bipolar disorder in patients attending primary care.

Annales médico-psychologiques, Oct 1, 2009

Le médecin généraliste est souvent en première ligne pour le dépistage des troubles bipolaires. O... more Le médecin généraliste est souvent en première ligne pour le dépistage des troubles bipolaires. Or, la prévalence des troubles bipolaires en médecine générale est mal connue. Nous avons donc décidé de mener une enquête (enquête Bipolact Impact) chez des patients A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 2 temps et ont été considérés comme un « problème sérieux » par le patient. 3,7 % des patients ont été identifiés comme bipolaires avec cette définition (valeur minimale étant donnée la restriction « problème sérieux »). Les patients ayant eu un score considéré comme pathologique au MDQ étaient plus jeunes, plus souvent séparés ou divorcés et au chômage. En conclusion, la prévalence des troubles bipolaires définie par le questionnaire MDQ auprès de 9 patients consultant au cabinet des médecins généralistes est au moins de 3,7 %, une valeur égale ou supérieure à celles qui ont été rapportées précédemment pour la population générale [9].

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2004

8055 Background: Iatrogenic pain is a concern for oncologists, especially pain related to diagnos... more 8055 Background: Iatrogenic pain is a concern for oncologists, especially pain related to diagnostic or therapeutic procedures which are numerous and repeated for cancer pts. In most instances these examinations are planned, therefore pain-preventing protocols could be used. METHODS the aim of our study was to promote the use of these protocols as GCP and to measure the effect of their implementation on the pain and discomfort perceived by pts. We considered 5 situations: bone marrow biopsy, bone marrow aspiration, ascitis drainage, pleural drainage and arterial puncture for gazometry. We compared a center G- where no global guidelines were available and a center G+ where physicians and nurses were educated about pain and specific guidelines edited for each situation. Guidelines included pts reception, information about procedure, anxiolytics, transdermal prilocaine /lidocaine, local percutaneous anesthesia. Main endpoint was the comparison of pain levels between the 2 centers (as measured by a 11-point visual analogic scale VAS) during the procedure, global satisfaction of pts and physicians. RESULTS 239 pts were included in G-, 223 in G+. All pts had some medication to prevent pain: in G- pts had only local anesthesia. In G+ guidelines were effectively used in 50% of pts: for other pts anxiolytic and /or prilocaine/lidocaine was omitted. Overall pain was significantly lower in G+ (mean VAS 2.6 vs 3.2, p=0.008). A difference was found even when guidelines were not applied. This could be explained by a better awareness of pain as an issue in G+. Pain was not correlated with tumor type or extent, gender, age. CONCLUSIONS Education of physicians and pts information are effective for reducing pain during invasive investigations in cancer pts. This means not only to use adequate anesthetic procedures but also to take in account pts stress. No significant financial relationships to disclose.

Santé publique, 2006

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Une minorite des adolescents qui declarent des troubles psychologiques beneficient d'une eval... more Une minorite des adolescents qui declarent des troubles psychologiques beneficient d'une evaluation psychiatrique. Notre objectif principal etait donc, par une approche epidemiologique en population generale, de mettre en evidence les facteurs (psychosociaux, relationnels, conduites de demande d'aide) qui limitent le recours aux soins et la prise en charge par les services specialises ou non specialises, des troubles psychiatriques de l'adolescent. Ainsi, dans le cas de troubles emotionnels, certains facteurs de gravite psychopathologique favorisent la demande de soins (intensite des symptomes emotionnels, comorbidite avec des troubles des conduites et somatiques) et d'autres la limite comme le sexe masculin, l'age (les plus jeunes), et le manque d'investissement des pairs. Une troisieme categorie de facteurs favorisent l'acces aux services mais ne sont pas des facteurs de risque psychopathologique comme la separation des parents et l'absenteisme scol...

Bulletin de l'Académie Nationale de Médecine, 2006

RESUME Au cours des vingt dernieres annees on a observe en France une diminution de l’usage des h... more RESUME Au cours des vingt dernieres annees on a observe en France une diminution de l’usage des hypnotiques, une stabilite de l’usage des anxiolytiques et des neuroleptiques et une augmentation de celui des antidepresseurs. Les donnees de l’etude ESEMeD (European Study of Epidemiology of MEntal Disorder) menee en 2002 en Allemagne, Belgique, Espagne, France, Hollande et Italie, montre que l’usage des anxiolytiques dans l’annee (y compris l’usage recurrent) est moins frequent en Allemagne que dans les autres pays. Pour les antidepresseurs la Belgique et la France ont une prevalence plus elevee. En cas de depression, moins d’un tiers des sujets rapportent la prise d’un antidepresseur (sans difference entre pays) et un tiers d’un anxiolytique (taux plus eleve en France). En cas d’anxiete un quart des sujets rapportent la prise d’une benzodiazepine (taux plus bas en Allemagne). Les facteurs tres associes a un usage eleve de benzodiazepines sont l’âge, les troubles psychiatriques et les troubles neurologiques. Les facteurs tres associes a l’usage des antidepresseurs sont l’âge (courbe en cloche), le sexe feminin et les troubles psychiatriques.

Encephale-revue De Psychiatrie Clinique Biologique Et Therapeutique, 2001

Afin d'evaluer la frequence de l'inobservance des antidepresseurs en France et les facteu... more Afin d'evaluer la frequence de l'inobservance des antidepresseurs en France et les facteurs l'influant, une etude a ete menee en population generale representative nationale. Deux types d'inobservance ont ete consideres: 1) l'interruption prema turee du traitement; 2) l'oubli de doses ou la baisse de posologie. Le recueil des donnees a ete realise par entretien telephonique. Les resultats montrent que parmi les 423 sujets inclus (representant 4,3 % de la population generale), 36,9 % etaient inobservants (15,4 % par interruption du traitement et 21,5 % par modification de la posologie). Les resultats montrent que ces deux types d'inobservance ne partagent pas les memes facteurs de risque. L'inobservance par interruption de traitement est plus frequente chez les sujets ayant un niveau d'etudes eleve (OR = 2,5) en cas de prise pluriquotidienne du traitement (OR = 3,0), quand le medecin n'informe pas globalement son patient sur le traitement (OR =...

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2019

Background Quality indicators (QI) are mandatory in French hospitals. After a decade of use, the ... more Background Quality indicators (QI) are mandatory in French hospitals. After a decade of use, the Ministry of Health set up an expert workgroup to enhance informed decision-making regarding currently used national QI, i.e. to propose a decision of withdrawing, revising or continuing their use. We report the development of an integrated method for a comprehensive appraisal of quality/safety indicators (QI) during their life cycle, for three purposes, quality improvement, public disclosure and regulation purposes. The method was tested on 10 national QI on use for up to 10 years to identify operational issues. Methods A modified Delphi technique to select relevant criteria and a development of a mixed evaluation method by the workgroup. A ‘real-life’ test on 10 national QI. Results Twelve criteria were selected for the appraisal of QI used for regulation goals, 11 were selected for hospital improvement and seven for public disclosure. The perceived feasibility and relevance were studie...

Transplantation, 2003

Risk for tumor and other disease transmission by transplantation: a population based study of unr... more Risk for tumor and other disease transmission by transplantation: a population based study of unrecognised malignancies and other disease in organ donors. Transplantation 2002; 74: 1409.

Research article Difficulties associated with outpatient management of drug abusers by general pr... more Research article Difficulties associated with outpatient management of drug abusers by general practitioners. A cross-sectional survey of general practitioners with and without methadone patients in Switzerland

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2008

Rouillon F. Body mass index and prevalence of obesity in a French cohort of patients with schizop... more Rouillon F. Body mass index and prevalence of obesity in a French cohort of patients with schizophrenia. Objective: To evaluate the distributions of body mass index in a large sample of patients with schizophrenia, and to examine the association between body weight and antipsychotic drugs. Method: The data source was baseline data from a national survey conducted in 2005-2006 in 5756 patients. Results: The mean age of the patients was 37.1 ± 11.8 years, and the mean BMI was 25.5 ± 5.2 kg ⁄ m 2. In the final logistic regression model, the prevalence of obesity was significantly higher in female patients, age 40-59 vs. 18-29 years, patients in sheltered employment (vs. no income), outpatients (vs. full-time in-patients) and patients treated with concomitant antidepressant. There was a higher rate of obesity, relative to an absence of antipsychotics at entry, for patients receiving the following individual drugs: clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone and amisulpride. Conclusion: In patients treated with atypical antipsychotics, we found a significantly higher prevalence of obesity than in those not treated with any antipsychotic medication.

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1999