Psychiatric News (8/18) reports, “Compared with other common antipsychotics, clozapine appears most likely to decrease the risk of suicidal outcomes in patients with schizophrenia,” investigators concluded after examining data from “two nationwide register-based cohort studies of 61,889 patients with schizophrenia who lived in Finland and 29,823 patients with schizophrenia who lived in Sweden.” The findings were published online Aug. 15 in the Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Related Links:
— “Clozapine Found Most Likely of Common Antipsychotics to Reduce Risk of Suicide in Patients With Schizophrenia, Psychiatric News, August 18, 2020