Relationship of serum haloperidol levels to clinical response in schizophrenic patients
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 138 (3) , 365-367
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.3.365
Abstract
Sixteen outpatients and 1 inpatient were treated who had diagnoses of schizophrenia in exacerbation with haloperidol as the sole neuroleptic agent and obtained ratings of psychopathology and serum levels of haloperidol. Improvements in schizophrenic symptoms measured by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale was significantly greater in patients who had mean haloperidol serum concentrations in the range of 8-18 ng/ml than in patients whose mean haloperidol serum concentration fell outside this range.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Clinical state and serum neuroleptic levels measured by radioreceptor assay in schizophreniaAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1980