Across eight hospitals, 50 hospital psychiatrists and 100 inpatients currently under treatment were interviewed about their schizophrenic relapse prevention. Three months after discharge the treating psychiatrists were interviewed about the compliance levels of their patients. For 75% of their patients, psychiatrists fulfilled guideline recommendations when indicating the planned duration of antipsychotic maintenance therapy. However, these recommendations were not routinely communicated to the patients, so that only 11% of the patients had accurate knowlege about the further duration of medication. At the point of discharge only 60% of the patients knew, which neuroleptic medication they had received and only 30% knew the correct dose. Target interventions, such as psychoeducation, to guarantee continous antipsychotic therapy were seldom used. Just three months after discharge more than 30% of the patients were again incompliant.
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Across eight hospitals, 50 hospital psychiatrists and 100 inpatients currently under treatment were interviewed about their schizophrenic relapse prevention. Three months after discharge the treating psychiatrists were interviewed about the compliance levels of their patients. For 75% of their patients, psychiatrists fulfilled guideline recommendations when indicating the planned duration of antipsychotic maintenance therapy. However, these recommendations were not routinely communicated to the...
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