Geographic Trends in Pediatric Psychotropic Medication Dispensing Before and After the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Greta Bushnell1, Jenny W Sun1, Susan dosReis1

  • 1Rutgers Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, New Brunswick, New Jersey (Bushnell, Gerhard, Horton); Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey (Bushnell, Gerhard, Horton); Safety Surveillance Research, Pfizer, New York City (Sun); Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore (dosReis, Camelo Castillo, Lee); Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (Czaja); Department of Medical and Clinical Pharmacology, Center of Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France (Durrieu); Center of Clinical Investigations, Inserm CIC1426, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris Cité University-National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris (Kaguelidou); School of Nursing-Camden, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Camden (Pudasainee-Kapri); Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina (Raman); GlaxoSmithKline, Rockville, Maryland (Spence).

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