Antipsychotic drugs in first-episode psychosis : A target trial emulation in the FEP-CAUSAL Collaboration

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Good adherence to antipsychotic therapy helps prevent relapses in First Episode Psychosis (FEP). We used data from the FEP-CAUSAL Collaboration, an international consortium of observational cohorts to emulate a target trial comparing antipsychotics with treatment discontinuation as the primary outcome. Other outcomes included all-cause hospitalization. We benchmarked our results to estimates from EUFEST, a randomized trial conducted in the 2000s. We included 1097 patients with a psychotic disorder and less than 2 years since psychosis onset. Inverse probability weighting was used to control for confounding. The estimated 12-month risks of discontinuation for aripiprazole, first-generation agents, olanzapine, paliperidone, quetiapine, and risperidone (95% CI) were: 61.5% (52.5-70.6), 73.5% (60.5-84.9), 76.8% (67.2-85.3), 58.4% (40.4-77.4), 76.5% (62.1-88.5), and 74.4% (67.0-81.2) respectively. Compared with aripiprazole, the 12-month risk differences (95% CI) were -15.3% (-30.0, 0.0) for olanzapine, -12.8% (-25.7, -1.0) for risperidone, and 3.0% (-21.5, 30.8) for paliperidone. The 12-month risks of hospitalization were similar between agents. Our estimates support use of aripiprazole and paliperidone as first-line therapies for FEP. Benchmarking yielded similar results for discontinuation and absolute risks of hospitalization as in the original trial, suggesting that data from the FEP-CAUSAL Collaboration data sufficed to approximately remove confounding for these clinical questions.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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American journal of epidemiology - (2024) vom: 03. Apr.

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Englisch

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Szmulewicz, Alejandro G [VerfasserIn]
Martínez-Alés, Gonzalo [VerfasserIn]
Logan, Roger [VerfasserIn]
Ferrara, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Kelly, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Fredrikson, Diane [VerfasserIn]
Gago, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Conderino, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Díaz-Caneja, Covadonga M [VerfasserIn]
Galvañ, Joaquín [VerfasserIn]
Thorpe, Lorna [VerfasserIn]
Srihari, Vinod [VerfasserIn]
Yatham, Lakshmi [VerfasserIn]
Sarpal, Deepak K [VerfasserIn]
Shinn, Ann K [VerfasserIn]
Arango, Celso [VerfasserIn]
Öngür, Dost [VerfasserIn]
Hernán, Miguel A [VerfasserIn]
Fep-Causal Collaboration, On Behalf Of The [VerfasserIn]

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Antipsychotics
Benchmarking
Comparative effectiveness
First Episode Psychosis
Journal Article
Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia
Target Trial Emulation
Tolerability
Treatment

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Date Revised 05.04.2024

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10.1093/aje/kwae029

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NLM370655818