The time to TD development was calculated starting from the day of the first antipsychotic dose, whether or not the patient had been examined on that date. We used survival analysis because of the different lengths of follow-up for the patients. The majority of patients did not develop ...
olanzapine and dexamethasone to prevent acute phase nausea and vomiting and short-term ondansetron and domperidone for the delayed phase is a cost-effective treatment approach compared with aprepitant-containing regimens in resource-poor settings2. An open-label interventional study comparing the combination...
Patient disposition Of the 514 patients randomly allocated to treatment in the parent study, 156 were Japanese. As shown in Figure 1, the acute phase of the study was completed by 86 of the 104 Japanese patients randomized to olanzapine (82.7%) and 41 of the 52 Japanese patients randomized ...
Participants were recruited from the in-patient and outpatient services of the UNC Healthcare system and Dorothea Dix Hospital as well as the practices of other psychiatrists throughout North Carolina. The intended sample size was 75. However, recruitment difficulties resulted in a final sample size...
For inclusion, a patient must have had, in the investigator's opinion, a positive response to treatment with antipsychotics within the previous 2 years. Patients were excluded from the study if they had a current diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, drug-induced psychosis, manic episode, or ...