The Influence of Unmeasured Confounding Effects in a Study of Antipsychotic Discontinuation in First-Episode Schizophrenia

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Abhishek Ghosh et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2018.

. 2018 Dec 1;175(12):1266-1267.

doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18091036.

¹ From the Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

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Keywords: Antipsychotics; Confounding Variables; Cox Regression; Outcome Studies; Predictive Accuracy; Schizophrenia.

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