Mining and Mapping 25 Years of Medication Use in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Contact-Level Descriptive Analysis of Electronic Health Records - Takeaways - MDSpire

Mining and Mapping 25 Years of Medication Use in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Contact-Level Descriptive Analysis of Electronic Health Records

  • By

  • Dipendra Pant

  • Carolyn Clausen

  • Bennett L Leventhal

  • Thomas Brox Røst

  • Roman Koposov

  • Odd Sverre Westbye

  • Jostein Arntzen

  • Norbert Skokauskas

  • Øystein Nytrø

  • June 16, 2026

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    Norwegian CAMHS employs the ICD-10 multiaxial framework for diagnosing mental health disorders in children and adolescents.

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    The ATC classification system is used to categorize medications, enabling systematic analysis of psychotropic and nonpsychotropic medications.

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    Medication use in child and adolescent mental health care has significantly increased over the past two decades, particularly for ADHD and mood disorders.

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    The study utilized EHR data from Norwegian CAMHS to analyze medication prescriptions and comorbidities across different diagnostic axes.

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    Only 22.17% of recorded contacts in the EHR included a medication prescription, highlighting underutilization in treatment documentation.

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Mining and Mapping 25 Years of Medication Use in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Contact-Level Descriptive Analysis of Electronic Health Records

  • by Dipendra Pant, Carolyn Clausen, Bennett L Leventhal, Thomas Brox Røst, Roman Koposov, Odd Sverre Westbye, Jostein Arntzen, Norbert Skokauskas, Øystein Nytrø

  • June 16, 2026

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