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Tolerability of antipsychotic drugs: does patients perspective deserve consideration?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Michela Nosè
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This contribution initially describes some traditional tools that are commonly used to measure drug tolerability, including measures that take into considerations both clinicians’ and patients’ views. Subsequently, it highlights a few studies that compared the patient and clinician's perspective in the evaluation of drug tolerability, trying to understand whether health care providers and patients perceive antipsychotic tolerability in different ways, and whether these different ways may have implica-tions in terms of treatment adherence and outcome. Finally, some clinical and research implications are suggested and discussed.

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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 182 - 185
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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