Risperidone more cost effective than olanzapine in

Authors: Wayne Elwood

Publish Date: 2013/02/11

Volume: 181, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-4

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Abstract

T he cost of treatment is of considerable interest to all those involved in caring for patients with schizophrenia In a reallife setting the atypical antipsychotic risperidone was more cost effective than olanzapine in the treatment of this expensive psychiatric disorder according to a drug utilisation review conducted within a tertiarycare facility in British Columbia Canada These new data were presented at the 21st Congress of the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum CINP Glasgow Scotland July 1998

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