Pre‐diagnostic and post‐diagnostic psychopharmacological treatment of 16 288 patients with bipolar disorder

Objectives The aim was to describe the pre‐diagnostic and post‐diagnostic psychopharmacological treatment of bipolar disorder over the past two decades. Methods We identified all 16 288 individuals aged ≥ 18 years, who received their first diagnosis of bipolar disorder at a psychiatric hospital in Denmark between 1997 and 2014. For each calendar year, we calculated the proportion of patients (with index date in the respective calendar years) who...