Mental healthcare utilisation by patients before and after receiving paliperidone palmitate treatment: mirror image analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare mental healthcare use and healthcare professional (HCP) contacts for patients before and after initiation of paliperidone palmitate.

Setting

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) Biomedical Research Centre Clinical Record Interactive Search.

Participants

We identified all adults with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision: F20.x), who had received paliperidone palmitate prescription for at least 365 days and had at least 1 year of recorded treatment from SLAM, prior to the first recorded receipt of paliperidone palmitate.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Inpatient and community mental healthcare service use, such as inpatient bed days, number of active days in the serv

SUBMITTER: Kadra-Scalzo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987753 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature