Protocol of guided antipsychotic reduction to reach minimum effective dose (GARMED) in patients with remitted psychosis based on pragmatic design.
Chen-Chung LiuMing H HsiehYi-Ling ChienChih-Min LiuYi-Ting LinTzung-Jeng HwangHai-Gwo HwuPublished in: Early intervention in psychiatry (2021)
By employing this pragmatic-based protocol, patients are empowered to evaluate their readiness for next dose reduction attempt. We would like to test in real-world situations if stable patients can reduce antipsychotics not at the expense of an increased risk of relapse, so as to optimize the balance between risk-to-benefit ratios of long-term antipsychotic treatment.