Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Patients With Schizophrenia Switching From Oral Risperidone/Paliperidone to Once-Monthly Paliperidone Palmitate: A Veterans Health Administration Claims Analysis

• Main Authors: Charmi Patel, MPH, RN (Author), Antoine El Khoury, PhD, MS (Author), Ahong Huang, MD (Author), Li Wang, PhD, MS, MBA (Author), Richa Bashyal, MPH (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Schizophrenia is associated with high health care resource utilization and treatment costs. Objective: This study compared treatment patterns, health care resource utilization, and medical costs before and after a switch from oral antipsychotic drug (risperidone or paliperidone [RIS/PALI...