Switch Tables offers a guide for physicians and pharmacists in switching antidepressants and antipsychotics and in combining mood stabilizers and the conversion of benzodiazepines. It is a helpful tool to calculate the appropriate dosage when switching and/or combining psychopharmaceuticals and to learn the possible consequences of the switch and/or conversion.

Switch Tables aims to improve psychopharmacotherapy and medication safety for all patients. Switch Tables will be updated on a regular basis.

Walter Broekema (1953) is the editor of Switch Tables. He is a hospital pharmacist He graduated as a pharmacist in 1979 and gained his specialisation of hospital pharmacist in 1991. He is former president of the Special Interest Group Psychiatry of the Dutch Association of Hospital Pharmacists (NVZA/KNMP).

Conflict of interests: no pharmaceutical companies nor financial interests are involved. Declared 2014.