Dose Equivalents for Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs: The Classical Mean Dose Method
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Dose Equivalents for Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs: The Classical Mean Dose Method.
BACKGROUND The concept of dose equivalence is important for many purposes. The classical approach published by Davis in 1974 subsequently dominated textbooks for several decades. It was based on the assumption that the mean doses found in flexible-dose trials reflect the average optimum dose which can be used for the calculation of dose equivalence. We are the first to apply the method to secon...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbv037