Review: prescribing rates of drugs for medical conditions are lower in people with mental illness

Two reviewers appraised studies and selected interventional or observational studies assessing prescriptions for medical conditions in people with and without mental illness. Affective disorder (13 analyses, n=232 882) was associated with a non-significant trend to lower prescribing compared with no mental illness (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.55 to 1.02, p=0.07) although differences were significant when fixed effects meta-analyses were performed (data not shown).