作者
Norio Yasui‐Furukori, Hiroyuki Muraoka, Naomi Hasegawa, Shinichiro Ochi, Shusuke Numata, Hikaru Hori, Akitoyo Hishimoto, Toshiaki Onitsuka, Kazutaka Ohi, Naoki Hashimoto, Tatsuya Nagasawa, Yoshikazu Takaesu, Takahiko Inagaki, Hiromi Tagata, Takashi Tsuboi, Chika Kubota, Ryuji Furihata, Jun‐ichi Iga, Hitoshi Iida, Kenichiro Miura, Junya Matsumoto, Hisashi Yamada, Koichiro Watanabe, Ken Inada, Kazutaka Shimoda, Ryota Hashimoto
发表日期
2022/3
期刊
Neuropsychopharmacology reports
卷号
42
期号
1
页码范围
3-9
简介
Background
The decision to initiate clozapine treatment should be made on an individual basis and may be closely related to the early detection of treatment‐resistant schizophrenia (TRS), although there is evidence that the early use of clozapine results in a better response to treatment. Therefore, we investigated the relationship between the examination rate of TRS and the prescription rate of clozapine.
Methods
After attending a 1‐day educational program on schizophrenia based on the "Guidelines for the Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia," we asked the participating facilities to submit records of whether or not TRS was evaluated for each patient. We calculated the clozapine prescription rate from the schizophrenic patients prescribed clozapine and all of the schizophrenic patients. Forty‐nine facilities in 2017 were included in the study.
Results
There were dichotomous distributions in the …
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