Remission, prediction and stability of symptoms in schizophrenia: A naturalistic 12-month follow-up study.

Abstract Objective. Since its introduction in 2005, schizophrenia remission consensus criteria have been used in several prospective and cross-sectional studies. The aim of this prospective assessment of patients with schizophrenia was to employ the remission criteria in a naturalistic study design.

[Frequency of remission in schizophrenia patients at one year follow-up].

Objective: This paper describes the frequency of remission in former inpatients with schizophrenia as well as its relations with sociodemographic and other relevant variables.

Methods: The characteristics of 88 schizophrenia patients (ICD-10 F20.x) were examined in an extensive quality-monitoring-project at the Ev.