Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs vs placebo/no treatment: Service use: Number of participants hospitalised
Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs leads to lower service use: Number of participants hospitalised compared with placebo/no treatment (high certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs vs placebo/no treatment Service use: Number of participants hospitalised · patients with schizophrenia Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs leads to lower service use: Number of participants hospitalised compared with placebo/no treatment (high certainty). Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD008016.PUB2, superseded | RR 0.38 [0.27, 0.55] | 16 studies · 2090 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia 2020 · 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.