The schizophrenia drug-treatment paradox: pharmacological treatment based on best possible evidence may be hardest to practise in high-income countries.
Most people with schizophrenia live in low- and middle-income countries in which clinicians/policy makers are not the first targets of marketing. Because it is years after a drug is first launched that the full effects become known with confidence, the evidence upon which to base practice in low- and middle-income countries may be less biased than that in richer nations.
Adams
Clive E
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Tharyan
Prathap
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Coutinho
Evandro S F
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Stroup
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D019049:Developed Countries / Q000191:economics; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000191:economics