Accepted Article NON-ADHERENCE TO PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION ASSESSED BY PLASMA LEVELS IN NEWLY ADMITTED PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS Running title: Prevalence before acute admission Christian Geretsegger, MD (), Eva-Maria Pichler, MD* (1, 2), Kathrin Gimpl, PhD (1, 3), Wolfgang Aichhorn, MD (1), Renate Stelzig, MD (1), Gertrud Grabher-Stoeffler, MD (4), Christoph Hiemke, PhD (5), Gerald Zernig, MD (3) 1 University Clinics of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria 2 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich 3.Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Division of experimental Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Austria 4 Tirol Clinics, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hall i.T., Austria 5 University Clinics for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Mainz, Germany *Corresponding author: Eva-Maria Pichler Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics University of Zurich Militärstrasse 4, 8004 Zürich E-mail: Evamaria.pichler@uzh.ch Tel.: 0041 56 462 2651 Fax: 0041 56 462 2616 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/pcn.12809