Relationships Between Adherence to Guideline Recommendations for Pharmacological Therapy Among Clinicians and Psychotic Symptoms in Patients With Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinician adherence to guideline recommendations in the pharmacological therapy of schizophrenia is important for favorable patient outcomes. To evaluate whether prescriptions followed the guidelines for pharmacological therapy of schizophrenia, we recently developed a summary indicator of multiple quality indicators: the individual fitness score (IFS). It is unclear whether adherence to the guidelines is related to patient outcomes. Here, we investigated correlations between the IFS values and psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia.

Methods

We assessed whether patients' current prescriptions adhered to the guideline recommendations using the IFS in 47 patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) and 353 patients with non-TRS (total n = 400), r

SUBMITTER: Kodaka F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10464927 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature