Background There is a lack of consistency in findings across studies on the prevalence of
schizophrenia, and no recent systematic review of the literature exists. The purpose of this …

Background Understanding the prevalence of schizophrenia has important implications for
both health service planning and risk factor epidemiology. The aims of this review are to …

Objective: To present the results of a systematic review of the literature published between
January 1, 1980, and December 31, 2000, that reports findings on the prevalence and …

BackgroundThis systematic review and collaborative recalculation was set up to recalculate
schizophrenia incidence rates from previously published studies by age and sex …

Background Understanding variations in the incidence of schizophrenia is a crucial step in
unravelling the aetiology of this group of disorders. The aims of this review are to …

While meta‐analytic techniques are routine in the synthesis of data from randomized
controlled trials, there are no clear guidelines on how best to summarize frequency data …

Objective: Science needs to constantly match research models against the data. With
respect to the epidemiology of schizophrenia, the widely held belief that the incidence of …

Over the last decade, we have learned a great deal about the epidemiology of
schizophrenia. New data have accumulated, and systematic reviews have enabled us to …

Abstract Background Real-World Data (RWD) studies provide important insights in disease
epidemiology, in real clinical populations, with long follow-up periods. The aim of the …

Background We conducted a systematic review of incidence rates in England over a sixty-
year period to determine the extent to which rates varied along accepted (age, sex) and less …