How do we choose between atypical antipsychotics? The advantages of amisulpride

Multiple vaccines: how do we choose?

BACKGROUND As preventive medicine is a cornerstone of managed care, most health plans have traditionally featured automatic vaccine coverage routed through the medical benefit. However, with the advent of emerging vaccines, managed care stakeholders must revise decision-making processes and choose among multiple products targeting the same disease. OBJECTIVE To review the motivating forces be...

Do atypical antipsychotics improve cognition?

One of the major symptoms of schizophrenia is cognitive deficits. Despite this, these impairments still lack an effective treatment. It was hoped that atypical antipsychotics would treat these symptoms better than their first generation counterparts, but unfortunately the likes of quetiapine and clozapine did not do so. Asenapine and lurasidone, two newer atypicals, have shown promise, as have ...

How do we choose a therapeutic regimen in cystic fibrosis?

How do clinicians choose antidepressants?

Research suggests no difference in efficacy be tween tricyclic and related antidepressant drugs. The British National Formulary (1993) lists 21 different antidepressants. Reviews of antidepres sant treatment suggest that choice of antidepres sant should be made on the grounds of previous drug exposure and side effect profiles of different drugs. At present there are no clinical guidelines to in...

How Do Young People Choose

Previous studies on the determinants of the choice of college major have assumed a constant probability of success across majors or a constant earnings stream across majors. Our model disregards these two restrictive assumptions in computing an expected earnings variable to explain the probability that a student will choose a specific major among four choices of concentrations. The construction...