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Prescription of topiramate to treat alcohol use disorders in the Veterans Health Administration

Overview of attention for article published in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, July 2013
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Title
Prescription of topiramate to treat alcohol use disorders in the Veterans Health Administration
Published in
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, July 2013
DOI 10.1186/1940-0640-8-12
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Authors

A C Del Re, Adam J Gordon, Anna Lembke, Alex HS Harris

Abstract

As a quality improvement metric, the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) monitors the proportion of patients with alcohol use disorders (AUD) who receive FDA approved medications for alcohol dependence (naltrexone, acamprosate, and disulfiram). Evidence supporting the off-label use of the antiepileptic medication topiramate to treat alcohol dependence may be as strong as these approved medications. However, little is known about the extent to which topiramate is used in clinical practice. The goal of this study was to describe and examine the overall use, facility-level variation in use, and patient -level predictors of topiramate prescription for patients with AUD in the VHA.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 3%
Unknown 34 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 17%
Other 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Professor 3 9%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 11 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 31%
Psychology 4 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 14 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 March 2022.
All research outputs
#3,561,561
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#129
of 487 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,440
of 206,315 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#1
of 2 outputs
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