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Importance: Long-acting injectable antipsychotics are used to reduce medication nonadherence and relapse in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. The relative effectiveness of long-acting injectable versions of second-generation and older antipsychotics has not been assessed.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of the second-generation long-acting injectable antipsychotic paliperidone palmitate with the older long-acting injectable antipsychotic haloperidol decanoate.

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Impact of medical comorbidity on the quality of schizophrenia pharmacotherapy in a national VA sample.

Med Care

January 2006

Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven 06519, and Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Background: More than half of patients with schizophrenia have comorbid chronic medical illness. During the past decade, several studies have evaluated the quality of the medical treatment of these conditions. This work examines the impact of comorbid medical conditions on the quality of schizophrenia pharmacotherapy in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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