The use of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for assessing functional change in treatment outcome monitoring of patients with chronic schizophrenia

Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that is characterized by symptomatic severity but also by high levels of functional impairment. An evaluation of clinical outcome in treatment of schizophrenia should therefore target not only assessing symptom change but also alterations in func...

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Main Authors: Stephan T. Egger, Stefan Vetter, Godehard Weniger, Caroline Vandeleur, Erich Seifritz, Mario Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00220/full