Ethnicity and schizophrenia medication choice: Haloperidol, risperidone, or olanzapine(brief letter - a response to a comment on our article)doi:10.1016/S1098-3015(10)64212-XJL OpolkaKL RascatiCM BrownPJ GibsonElsevier Inc.Value in Health - VALUE HEALTH...
The blind was maintained in CATIE by prescribing identical-looking capsules of each medication. Dosing was flexible, such that PIs could prescribe from one to four capsules per day, and could modify the dose based on a patient's symptoms and side effects. Capsule strengths for olanzapine (7.5...
Withdrawal syndrome is the seies of effects that occur to a person that is has an addiction, but has not had their "fix". These symptoms occur after ones abrupt discontinuation of an addiction. Answer and Explanation:
(1) choice of antipsychotic medication, accounting for efficacy and side effects; (2) route of administration of medications, considering the benefits and detriments of long-acting injectable and oral medications; and (3) reducing "doctor noncompliance," the failure of some physicians to perceive ...
Physicians may be choosing olanzapine therapy for more complicated schizophrenic patients, indicated by prior hospitalization cost, medication use, and clinical assessment scores.doi:10.1046/j.1524-4733.2001.40202-199.xPj GibsonDl LoosbrockJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Value in Health...
of three ways: (i) a recent decline in function coupled with either schizotypal personality disorder or a first-degree relative with psychosis, (ii) 'attenuated' positive symptoms, (iii) a brief psychotic episode of less than one weeks' duration and that resolves without antipsychotic medication....
Edlinger M, Hofer A, Rettenbacher MA, Baumgartner S, Widschwendter CG, Kemmler G, et al. Factors influencing the choice of new generation antipsychotic medication in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2009;113:246-51....