Selection of Antipsychotic Agents in a Psychiatric Hospital Based on Results of CATIE Study
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Objective: To choose typical or atypical antipsychotic drugs for treatment of schizophrenic patients in a psychiatric hospital. Method: A standard method was used; this method considers 4 main evaluation criteria and 4 secondary criteria. The typical antipsychotic drug, perphenazine, was compared with the atypical antipsychotic drugs (olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, and ziprasidone). The measures of efficacy of the most important criteria come from the clinical trial “Clinical Antipsychotic Trials for Intervention Effectiveness”
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