Table 5.

Percentage of acute patients on multiple antipsychotics (AP) drugs, depot AP and concurrent antiparkinsonian (APS) medication.

	1996 (n = 323)	1999 (n = 356)
*Patients given	(%)	(%)
No AP	5.2	2.0
One AP	48.9	57.6
Two APs	34.4	36.5
Three APs	11.1	3.9
Four APs	0.3	0.0
**Depot AP given	42.7	37.9
***AP given concurrently with APS	66.3	66.0

^*Mann–Whitney U-test: Z=−1.546, P = 0.122 (95% CI = −0.21, 0.0047)

^**chi-square test: χ² = 1.625, P = 0.202

^***chi-square test: χ² = 0.004, P = 0.947.