Treatment patterns and Medicaid spending in comorbid schizophrenia populations: once-monthly paliperidone palmitate vs oral atypical antipsychotics.

CONCLUSIONS: Treatment with PP1M versus OAAs may reduce AP polypharmacy and increase AP persistence in comorbid patients with schizophrenia, without increasing total healthcare costs. Comorbidities are a highly prevalent driver of excess mortality in this vulnerable population; thus future studies should specifically address real-world effectiveness of therapies (including LAIs) for these patients. PMID: 29452492 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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