Guided antipsychotic reduction to reach minimum effective dose (GARMED) in patients with remitted psychosis: a 2-year randomized controlled trial with a naturalistic cohort.
Chen-Chung LiuMing H HsiehYi-Ling ChienChih-Min LiuYi-Ting LinTzung-Jeng HwangHai-Gwo HwuPublished in: Psychological medicine (2023)
GDR is a feasible approach as the majority of patients had a chance to taper antipsychotics to certain extents. Still, 25.5% of GDR patients could not successfully decrease any dose, including 11.8% experienced relapse, a risk comparable to their maintenance counterparts.