Time to Stop Using the Term Relapse in Schizophrenia Clinical Trials

Editorial

. 2022 Oct 18;3(1):sgac056.

doi: 10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac056. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Editorial

William T Carpenter et al. Schizophr Bull Open. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 18;3(1):sgac056.

doi: 10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac056. eCollection 2022 Jan.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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