New generation antipsychotics versus low-potency conventional antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The clearest advantage of new generation, atypical antipsychotics is a reduced risk of extrapyramidal side-effects (EPS), compared with conventional compounds. These findings might have been biased by the use of the high-potency antipsychotic haloperidol as a comparator in most of the tr...

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Published in:Lancet Vol. 361; no. 9369; pp. 1581 - 1590
Main Authors: Leucht S, Wahlbeck K, Hamann J, Kissling W, Leucht, Stefan, Wahlbeck, Kristian, Hamann, Johannes, Kissling, Werner
Format: research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Lancet 5/10/2003
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