Title:skating on Thin Ice: Pragmatic Prescribing for Medication Refractory Schizophrenia
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Skating on thin ice: pragmatic prescribing for medication refractory schizophrenia
BACKGROUND Clozapine is the treatment of choice for medication refractory psychosis, but it does not benefit half of those put on it. There are numerous studies of potential post-clozapine strategies, but little data to guide the order of such treatment in this common clinical challenge. We describe a naturalistic observational study in 153 patients treated by a specialist psychosis service to ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2015