The schizophrenia drug-treatment paradox: pharmacological treatment based on best possible evidence may be hardest to practise in high-income countries.

Adams, Clive E; Tharyan, Prathap; Coutinho, Evandro S F; Stroup, T Scott · Br J Psychiatry · 2006

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Abstract

Most people with schizophrenia live in low- and middle-income countries in which clinicians/policy makers are not the first targets of marketing. Because it is years after a drug is first launched that the full effects become known with confidence, the evidence upon which to base practice in low- and middle-income countries may be less biased than that in richer nations.

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