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Why do psychiatric patients stop antipsychotic medication? A systematic review of reasons for nonadherence to medication in patients with serious mental illness

BACKGROUND: Antipsychotic medication reduces the severity of serious mental illness (SMI) and improves patient outcomes only when medicines were taken as prescribed. Nonadherence to the treatment of SMI increases the risk of relapse and hospitalization and reduces the quality of life. It is necessar...

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Autores principales: Velligan, Dawn I, Sajatovic, Martha, Hatch, Ainslie, Kramata, Pavel, Docherty, John P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28424542
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S124658