Psychotropic Medication Monitoring: A Review

To address a gap in the literature for concise recommendations on psychotropic medication monitoring geared to prescribers in primary care psychiatry.

Large institutional guidelines from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia/New Zealand combined with manual searches for psychiatric medication monitoring consensus and other recommendations up to January 31, 2018.

Any available guidelines and consensus statements making psychotropic medication monitoring recommendations for treatment of adults and published in English.

Manual identification of all specific recommendations on psychotropic medication monitoring from the sources.

Psychotropic medication monitoring recommendations vary by source, but there is considerable agreement among English-language sources, which can be readily summarized for teaching and everyday use.

For prescribers working in many disciplines, medication monitoring may be improved by having more ready access to recommendations.