Antipsychotics use and rehospitalization prevention in patients with schizophrenia / Uso de antipsicóticos e prevenção de re-hospitalizações em pacientes com esquizofrenia

AUTOR(ES)

Ana Paula Werneck de Castro

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

INTRODUCTION: An important outcome parameter of drug effectiveness in schizophrenia is relapse prevention which can be reliably measured by time to rehospitalization. We tested the hypothesis that clozapine was superior to other antipsychotics in preventing rehospitalization in patients with schizophrenia discharged from the Institute of Psychiatry. METHODS: This is a retrospective observational cohort study designed to evaluate rehospitalization rates of patients with schizophrenia discharged from the Institute of Psychiatry of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of Sao Paulo between Dec 1, 1997 and Dec 31, 2004 on a regimen of either conventional antipsychotics or nonclozapine second generation antipsychotics or clozapine during a three years follow-up. Risk factors associated with rehospitalization were examined by Cox regression model and survival curves were estimated by the product-limit formula (Kaplan-Meier). RESULTS: Of the 464 patients with schizophrenia discharged from hospital 242 met criteria to enter the study. They were followed at IPq outpatient clinic for three years. Of these 12 (17%) patients discharged in use of conventional antipsychotic, 27 (24%) in use of non-clozapine second generation antipsychotic, and nine (15%) in use of clozapine were rehospitalized. Survival analysis demonstrated a significant difference in timeto-rehospitalization between groups and between clozapine and second generation antipsychotics groups. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with clozapine were less rehospitalized than the others groups. The differences in time to rehospitalization were statistically significant between the three groups and between clozapine and nonclozapine second generation antipsychotics groups. Results were limited due to the heterogeneity of severity of illness between groups.

ASSUNTO(S)

clozapine clozapina psychotic disorder estudo comparativo hospitalização transtornos psicóticos agentes antipsicóticos/uso terapêutico hospitalization comparative study antipsychotic angents/treatment use

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