Recognition of schizophrenia and quality of treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Danish nationwide study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated the state of ill-health among patients with schizophrenia. We examined the number of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, the number of hospital admissions and outpatient contacts and the quality of treatment during the pandemic in comparison with the previous years.

Methods: We identified patients ≥18 years old registered in the Danish Schizophrenia Registry from 2016 to 2022.