Pediatric Antipsychotic Use and Outcomes Monitoring

Abstract Antipsychotic (ATP) prescription rates have increased in children and adolescents despite concern regarding the safety and effectiveness of ATP usage in community populations. Rising safety concerns and uncertainty regarding ATP effectiveness in children stress the need for improvement in routine clinical outcome monitoring and research. Due to the growing number of children exposed to atypical ATPs, studies assessing the risk/benefit ratio of administering ATPs in this age group—especially in off-label conditions—become of high importance. The Centre for Interventional Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Rare Diseases (CIPPRD) uses a suite of instruments to monitor outcomes using the web-based HealthTracker™, a health monitoring platform. The HealthTracker allows for capture of symptoms, side effects, quality of life, patient experience, and lifetime response to individualized treatments using a multi-informant multimodal methodology. It enables the tracking of ongoing medical treatments and assist...