Evidence Based Medicine Evidence based treatment of schizophrenia: Do we know enough?
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Schizophrenia is a disorder which lasts for a person's lifetime. Treating it is a formidable challenge for clinician's considering the chronic nature of its course, rate of relapse, side effects of medicines and limited choice of medications. Since 1950s, with the advent of Chlorpromazine efforts have been made to alleviate the symptoms of schizophrenia and make them useful in terms of social and occupational functioning. Expected success of Antipsychotic (AP) medications depends on the results of the efficacy and effectiveness trials.1
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