{"title":"Despite adverse event risk, anti psychotic polypharmacy has continued to rise","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/pu.31298","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Concurrent use of two or more antipsychotics has continued to increase over the past 50 years despite its association with a higher risk of adverse events, a systematic review and meta-analysis has found. In comparison with antipsychotic monotherapy, polypharmacy was associated with higher risk of adverse outcomes such as relapse and psychiatric hospitalization. Results of the review and meta-analysis were published online Nov. 12, 2024, in <i>Lancet Psychiatry</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":22275,"journal":{"name":"The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update","volume":"36 5","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pu.31298","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Concurrent use of two or more antipsychotics has continued to increase over the past 50 years despite its association with a higher risk of adverse events, a systematic review and meta-analysis has found. In comparison with antipsychotic monotherapy, polypharmacy was associated with higher risk of adverse outcomes such as relapse and psychiatric hospitalization. Results of the review and meta-analysis were published online Nov. 12, 2024, in Lancet Psychiatry.