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This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by International Medical News Group on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1053 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: TMAP guidelines gaining ground.(News)(Texas Medication Algorithm Project)
Author: Steve Perlstein
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 32 Issue: 3 Page: 1(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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When Dr. Steven P. Shon, medical director of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, attended a series of public hearings across his state about treatment of mental illness in 1995, he kept hearing frustration from patients and families about the wide variation in prescribing practices from one psychiatrist to the next.
In response, he worked with researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and the next year came up with the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) in order to bring standardization to psychotropic prescribing in Texas-run mental health facilities.
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