Guidelines for the Pharmacotherapy of Schizophrenia in Adults. Remington, G., Addington, D., Honer, W., Ismail, Z., Raedler, T., & Teehan, M. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie, 62(9):604–616, 2017.
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OBJECTIVE: The present guidelines address the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia in adults across different stages, phases, and symptom domains. METHOD: Guidelines were developed using the ADAPTE process, which takes advantage of existing guidelines. Six guidelines were identified for adaptation, with recommendations extracted from each. For those specific to the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia in adults, a working group selected between guidelines and recommendations to create an adapted guideline. RESULTS: Recommendations can be categorized into 6 areas that include 1) first-episode schizophrenia, 2) acute exacerbation, 3) relapse prevention and maintenance treatment, 4) treatment-resistant schizophrenia, 5) clozapine-resistant schizophrenia, and 6) specific symptom domains. For each category, recommendations are made based on the available evidence, which is discussed and linked to other established guidelines. CONCLUSIONS: In most cases, evidence-based recommendations are made that can be used to guide current clinical treatment and decision making. Notably, however, there is a paucity of established evidence to guide treatment decision making in the case of clozapine-resistant schizophrenia, a subsample that represents a sizable proportion of those with schizophrenia.
@article{remington_guidelines_2017,
	title = {Guidelines for the {Pharmacotherapy} of {Schizophrenia} in {Adults}},
	volume = {62},
	issn = {1497-0015},
	doi = {10.1177/0706743717720448},
	abstract = {OBJECTIVE: The present guidelines address the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia in adults across different stages, phases, and symptom domains.
METHOD: Guidelines were developed using the ADAPTE process, which takes advantage of existing guidelines. Six guidelines were identified for adaptation, with recommendations extracted from each. For those specific to the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia in adults, a working group selected between guidelines and recommendations to create an adapted guideline.
RESULTS: Recommendations can be categorized into 6 areas that include 1) first-episode schizophrenia, 2) acute exacerbation, 3) relapse prevention and maintenance treatment, 4) treatment-resistant schizophrenia, 5) clozapine-resistant schizophrenia, and 6) specific symptom domains. For each category, recommendations are made based on the available evidence, which is discussed and linked to other established guidelines.
CONCLUSIONS: In most cases, evidence-based recommendations are made that can be used to guide current clinical treatment and decision making. Notably, however, there is a paucity of established evidence to guide treatment decision making in the case of clozapine-resistant schizophrenia, a subsample that represents a sizable proportion of those with schizophrenia.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {9},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie},
	author = {Remington, Gary and Addington, Donald and Honer, William and Ismail, Zahinoor and Raedler, Thomas and Teehan, Michael},
	year = {2017},
	pmid = {28703015},
	pmcid = {PMC5593252},
	pages = {604--616},
}

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