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Measuring the economic benefit of treatment with atypical antipsychotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

MRJ Knapp
MRJ Knapp*
Affiliation:
Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, LondonWC2A 2AE ; Centre of the Economics of Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, LondonSE8, UK
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Summary

Schizophrenia has a major impact on the quality of life of sufferers, and its broader impact on families and on society are well known, although less thoroughly documented. The majority of sufferers require long-term treatment and support, and there are depressingly frequent media stories about violent incidents involving people with the illness. Consequently the costs of schizophrenia, broadly defined, loom large, not just from the perspective of health care decision-makers and governments, but also from that of sufferers and their families, to many other people with only indirect experience of the disease.

Keywords

schizophreniacostssocietyatypical antipsychoticseconomic evaluation
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Research Article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 13 , Issue S1 , 1998 , pp. 37s - 45s
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Copyright © Elsevier, Pari 1998

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