Long-term outpatient treatment plays the main role in schizophrenia relapse prevention. The rapid development of antipsychotic drugs has led to different treatment choices. The authors of the research study abstracted here evaluated the association between schizophrenia patients' sociodemographic/clinical characteristics, outpatient treatment regimens and prescribed psychotropic medications.

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