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Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice?
  Evidence regarding overestimation of the efficacy of antipsychotics and underestimation of their toxicity, as well as emerging data regarding alternative treatment options, suggests it may be time to introduce patient choice and reconsider whether everyone who meets the criteria for a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis requires antipsychotics in order to recover.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    01 August 2012

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Royal College of Psychiatrists

  • DOI:

    10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112110

  • Cross Ref:

    S0007125000271845

  • ISSN:

    0007-1250

Citation

Morrison, A. P., Hutton, P., Shiers, D., & Turkington, D. (2012). Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice?. British Journal of Psychiatry, 201(2), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112110

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Keywords

Antipsychotics, efficacy, toxicity, alternative treatment, patient choice, psychosis, schizophrenia,

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