Table 4 Daily cost of index and concomitant antipsychotics used during the first episode of index medication.
From: Cost of antipsychotic polypharmacy in the treatment of schizophrenia
Costs | OLZ (N = 405) | RIS (N = 276) | QUE (N = 115) | p-value* (OLZ vs Que) | p-value* (OLZ vs RIS) | p-value* (RIS vs QUE) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Concomitant atypicals | 2.02(5.85) | 3.15(6.85) | 7.44(10.61) | < 0.001 | 0.17 | < 0.001 |
Concomitant typicals | 1.79(4.08) | 1.15(2.44) | 1.26(2.96) | 0.220 | 0.004 | 0.850 |
Concomitant antipsychotics | 3.82(6.88) | 4.30(7.07) | 8.70(10.84) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
Index Drug | 10.08(5.4) | 6.74(3.81) | 6.63(4.55) | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.140 |
All antipsychotics | 13.9(8.97) | 11.04(7.93) | 15.33(11.71) | 0.012 | 0.002 | < 0.001 |