Adherence to Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics After Hospital Discharge

Abstract

Olanzapine initially appeared to be associated with an adherence advantage over risperidone and conventional antipsychotics, but the apparent advantage may have been due to a usual care dose frequency practice that associated olanzapine more often with once-daily dosing. This study suggests that dose frequency is an important predictor of medication adherence. An important caveat is that these results apply only to short-term adherence.