Association of antipsychotic treatment switching in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar and major depressive disorders.

Conclusions: These results show that disease and other psychiatric relapse, all-cause ER visits, IP admissions, and EPS diagnosis occurred earlier for patients who switched antipsychotics than for those who did not, suggesting that switching is associated with an increased risk of relapse in patients with SZ, BD and MDD. This may be attributed to more-severely ill patients being less responsive than those with less-severe illness, which, in turn, may require more episodes of switching. PMID: 31663802 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Economics - Category: Health Management Tags: J Med Econ Source Type: research