SWITCHING ‐ NEW ANTIPSYCHOTIC REGIMEN vs CONTINUATION ON PREVIOUS REGIMEN: 1b. NEW ATYPICAL from OLANZAPINE ‐ medium term (3‐12 months): Weight: 2a. BMI ‐ Increase
It is very uncertain whether SWITCHING ‐ NEW ANTIPSYCHOTIC REGIMEN changes weight: 2a. BMI ‐ Increase compared with CONTINUATION ON PREVIOUS REGIMEN: 1b. NEW ATYPICAL from OLANZAPINE ‐… (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
SWITCHING ‐ NEW ANTIPSYCHOTIC REGIMEN vs CONTINUATION ON PREVIOUS REGIMEN: 1b. NEW ATYPICAL from OLANZAPINE ‐ medium term (3‐12 months) Weight: 2a. BMI ‐ Increase · patients with people with schizophrenia who have neuroleptic‐induced weight or metabolic problems It is very uncertain whether SWITCHING ‐ NEW ANTIPSYCHOTIC REGIMEN changes weight: 2a. BMI ‐ Increase compared with CONTINUATION ON PREVIOUS REGIMEN: 1b. NEW ATYPICAL from OLANZAPINE ‐… (very low certainty). Antipsychotic switching for people with schizophrenia who have neuroleptic‐induced weight or metabolic… (2010) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.28 [0.13, 0.57] | 1 study · 173 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antipsychotic switching for people with schizophrenia who have neuroleptic‐induced weight or metabolic problems 2010 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.