Clozapine response rates among people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia: Data from a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Siskind, Dan
Siskind, Victor
Kisely, Steve
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2017
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Clozapine is the most effective antipsychotic for the 25% to 33% of people with schizophrenia who are treatment resistant, but not all people achieve response. Using data from a previously published clozapine systematic review and meta-analysis, we explored the proportion of people who achieved response and examined the absolute and percentage change in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) scores. Overall, 40.1% (95% confidence interval [CI], 36.8%-43.4%) responded, with a mean reduction in PANSS of 22.0 points (95% CI, 20.9-23.1), a reduction of 25.8% (95% CI, 24.7%-26.9%) from baseline. These reductions are clinically meaningful. A 40% response rate to clozapine suggests that 12% to 20% of people with schizophrenia will be ultra-resistant.

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The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

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62

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11

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

Psychology

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Psychiatry

clozapine

schizophrenia

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Siskind, D; Siskind, V; Kisely, S, Clozapine response rates among people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia: Data from a systematic review and meta-analysis, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2017, 62 (11), pp. 772-777

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