Psychopharmacotherapy for patients with schizophrenia in Japan has a long history of
polypharmacy, which is rare worldwide but remains a critical problem. One reason for this is …

Objective: Optimizing treatment and outcomes for people with schizophrenia requires
understanding of how evidence-based treatments are utilized. Clozapine is the most …

Aims Few studies have investigated the prescription patterns of clozapine in outpatients with
schizophrenia in China. It is an important issue due to clozapine's high efficacy and …

Objective Clozapine is one of the most commonly used antipsychotic drugs in China. To
date, few studies have investigated the patterns the prescription of clozapine nationwide …

Clozapine is an effective antipsychotic medication for treatment resistant schizophrenia and
is widely used in Asian countries. This study investigated clozapine prescription patterns …

Background To date there has been no large-scale international study that examined the
use of clozapine in older patients with schizophrenia. This study examined the use of …

What is known and objective The schizophrenia guidelines in Japan and many other
countries describe clozapine as the first‐choice drug for patients with treatment‐resistant …

Few studies have examined the clozapine in cohort studies of Chinese patients with
schizophrenia in rural primary care. The objective of this two-year cohort study was to …

This survey was conducted to identify the actual usage of clozapine and changes required to
increase the number of patients with schizophrenia who would benefit from clozapine. We …

Introduction To investigate the patterns and correlates of antipsychotic prescriptions among
recently discharged inpatients with schizophrenia in China. Methods The study included …