Abstract:Purpose: Long-term antipsychotic treatment is key to a positive clinical outcome in schizophrenia. Recent guidelines recommend the prescription of long-acting antipsychotic formulations (LAIs) as early as the first episode in patients with schizophrenia.The OPTIMUS study evaluated real-world use of a new three-monthly paliperidone palmitate formulation (PP3M) in France.Methods: For this observational cross-sectional study, all French psychiatrists were invited to enrol patients who had initiated PP3M in the pr… Show more
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