Rates of complete nonadherence among atypical antipsychotic drugs: A study using blood samples from 13,217 outpatients with psychotic disorders.
Abstract
Nonadherence to antipsychotics may cause relapse and hospitalizations in patients with psychotic disorders. The purpose was to quantify and compare the outpatient's nonadherence rates of atypical antipsychotics by objective detection in blood samples. Totally, 13,217 outpatients with therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) data of atypical antipsychotics were included. An event of complete nonadherence was defined as an occurrence of undetectable level of a prescribed antipsychotic in the blood sample submitted for TDM. Patients with such an event(s) were defined as nonadherent of the respective drug treatment (outcome). The rates of nonadherence patients were compared between the drugs by logistic regression. In the study population, 70.2% of the patients were prescribed doses compliant with a schizophrenia diagnosis. The mean olanzapine equivalent dose in the population was 13.4 mg (95% confidence interval (CI): 13.3, 13.6). The frequency of nonadherence patients, regardless of drug, was 3.7% (CI: 3.4-4.0). The nonadherence patient rate was lowest in clozapine-treated patients (2.2%; CI: 1.5-2.8), followed by aripiprazole (2.3%; 1.7-2.8), risperidone (2.4%; 1.6-3.0), quetiapine (2.8%; 2.3-3.2) and olanzapine (4.9%; 4.1-5.3). Users ...Continue Reading
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