Comparing PANSS scores and corresponding CGI scores between stable and acute schizophrenic patients

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 307-308

  Ortiz, Bruno Bertolucci ^a,b   Pitta, José Cássio do Nascimento ^a   Gadelha, Ary ^a   Mattos, Nárrima Ferreira ^b   Cunha, Juliana Yumi Konta ^b   de Araújo Filho, Gerardo Maria ^a,c   Cordeiro, Quirino ^d   Belangero, Sintia Iole ^a   Bressan, Rodrigo Affonseca ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Luzia de Pinho Melo   (Brazil)

^c FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

^d IRMANDADE DA SANTA CASA DE MISERICÓRDIA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEBEPHRENIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; OUTPATIENT; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; POSITIVE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; ACUTE SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENT; AGGRESSION; AUTOMUTILATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; MENTAL PATIENT; STABLE SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENT; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891625592     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.11.016     Document Type: Letter

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