• DOI:10.1056/NEJMOA051688
Corpus ID: 22499842

Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

@article{Lieberman2005EffectivenessOA,
  title={Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs in patients with chronic schizophrenia.},
  author={J. Lieberman and T. Stroup and J. McEvoy and M. Swartz and R. Rosenheck and D. Perkins and R. Keefe and S. Davis and C. E. Davis and B. Lebowitz and J. Severe and J. Hsiao},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2005},
  volume={353 12},
  pages={
          1209-23
        }
}

• J. Lieberman, T. Stroup, +9 authors J. Hsiao
• Published 2005
• Medicine
• The New England journal of medicine

BACKGROUND The relative effectiveness of second-generation (atypical) antipsychotic drugs as compared with that of older agents has been incompletely addressed, though newer agents are currently used far more commonly. [...] Key MethodRESULTS Overall, 74 percent of patients discontinued the study medication before 18 months (1061 of the 1432 patients who received at least one dose): 64 percent of those assigned to olanzapine, 75 percent of those assigned to perphenazine, 82 percent of those assigned to…Expand