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

Br J Psychiatry. 2006 Nov:189:391-2. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.029983.

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.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Developed Countries / economics
  • Developing Countries / economics
  • Humans
  • Schizophrenia / drug therapy*
  • Schizophrenia / economics