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an Economic Burden Comparison of Typical and Atypical Antipsychotic Therapies for Schizophrenia between General Hospital and Psychiatric Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

B. Han ,
R. Tang ,
H. Sun ,
S. Zhao  and
M. Xu
B. Han
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, the First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan City, China Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong Science and Technology University, Wuhan, China
R. Tang
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong Science and Technology University, Wuhan, China
H. Sun
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, the First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan City, China
S. Zhao
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, the First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan City, China
M. Xu
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, the First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan City, China

Abstract

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Aims:

To compare efficacy and medical costs of typital and atypical antipsychotics in treating schizophrenic patients.

Methods:

250 in patients in general hospital and psychiatric hospital were randomly allocated to one of the two groups, one treated with typital antipsychotics as chlorpromazine, haloperidol and so on with a mean daily dose of 500∼800 mg in chlorpromazine equivalents, and the other with atypical agents in cluding clozapine (mean daily dose of 400∼800mg ), risperidone of 6 mg, or olanzapine of 20 mg.

Results:

The total costs of the treatment were (3157±253) Yuan RMB for patients treated with typical agents in general hospital, and (3673±294) Yuan RMB for patients treated with typical agents in psychiatric hospital respectively. the costs for medicine were (774±903) Yuan RMB, (1061±903) Yuan RMB respectively. the costs in atypical group were(1120±390) Yuan RMB and (1637±325) Yuan RMB, and (108±157) Yuan RMB and (240±317) Yuan RMB respectively. the duration of patients treated with typical agents in hospital is longer than that with atypical agents.

Conclusions:

It indicates that atypical antipsychotics have similar efficacy to typical agents in treating schizophrenic patients with less costs.

Type
P03-145
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E1144
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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