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You know how you generally use medications. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see exactly what your colleagues are doing, say, in 700 cases? Take schizoaffective disorder, for example. What is the mix of antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers? Is there wisdom in your colleagues’ crowd here?
Hi! Jim Phelps here for the Psychopharmacology Institute. Here’s a look at 770 cases of schizoaffective disorder from the Andalusia region of Spain. It’s a descriptive study looking retrospectively at cases identified as schizoaffective disorder by diagnostic code. Here are some of the interesting findings. Seventy-seven percent of the patients were prescribed an antipsychotic, 13% were not. Two-thirds of those antipsychotics were orals, 25% were long-acting injectables and the rest, about 10%, were for oral haloperidol or a phenothiazine. Thirty percent of patients were on an antipsychotic alone. For the other 70%, there was at least 1 other medication.
So, I’ll ask you: What
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