experience of patients results in inadequate communication between the patient and the clinician. The Approaches to Schizophrenia …

Schizophrenia is a chronic disease characterized by periods of relative stability interrupted by acute episodes (or … techniques that have been used in schizophrenia: decision trees, (cohort and micro-simulation) Markov models and discrete event … schizophrenia treatments, a discrete event simulation model is best suited to accurately capture all of the relevant …

. Methods: We analysed data on earnings and other characteristics from the Schizophrenia Care and Assessment Program (SCAP), a 3 …-year longitudinal study (with data collection during the years 1997-2003) of 2327 adults with schizophrenia (including … connected with employment and labour supply in patients with schizophrenia, and both may be improved through use of atypicals. …

treatment of patients with schizophrenia in the UK. Parameter values and outcome scores were derived mainly from an …

expenditures related to schizophrenia. Changes in mental health-related utilisation and expenditures over time were calculated … Carolina Medicaid). Patients: Those patients with schizophrenia who received initial prescriptions for risperidone (n = 862 …: Based on these findings, we conclude that, in this population of patients with schizophrenia increased costs associated with …

schizophrenia and requiring a hospitalisation in the calendar year 1988 or 1992, by primary payer type (Medicare; Medicaid; or …-9-CM) diagnostic code of 295.00 to 295.95, indicating schizophrenia as the primary diagnosis; were hospitalised between … factors, the mean hospital length of stay for schizophrenia decreased by over 1 day (from 10.1 to 9.0; p <= 0.0001) between …

and lead to improved clinical and economic outcomes for patients with schizophrenia. Objectives: To investigate the cost … schizophrenia enrolled in the electronic Schizophrenia Treatment Adherence Registry (e-STAR) in Spain. Methods: e-STAR is an … international, long-term, ongoing, observational study of schizophrenia patients who, during their routine course of clinical …

, and may even decrease, the overall direct treatment costs of schizophrenia, compared with haloperidol. Total direct … is offset by reductions in other treatment costs in patients with schizophrenia. Compared with haloperidol, the drug … patients with long-standing schizophrenia. …

In this study, the benefits and costs of treating schizophrenia with either risperidone or clozapine were examined. The … lifetime drug-treatment cost incurred by a patient with schizophrenia in Israel was $US7561 (1996 values) with an initial 6 … by patients with new-onset schizophrenia, risperidone would have to decrease hospital use by 43.2% (i.e. a 13.2% relative …