Table 4 Comparisons between patients receiving augmentation therapy and antipsychotic monotherapy among patients discharged on clozapine.

From: Temporal trends in clozapine use at time of discharge among people with schizophrenia at two public psychiatric hospitals in Taiwan, 2006–2017

 

Augmentation therapy n = 1374)

Antipsychotic monotherapy (n = 2874)

pa

n

%

n

%

Sex

    

 < 0.001

 Male

560

40.8

1407

49.0

 

 Female

814

59.2

1467

51.0

 

Use of anticholinergics

    

 < 0.001

 Yes

665

48.4

658

22.9

 

 No

709

51.6

2216

77.1

 
 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

pb

Age (years)

41.3

10.9

41.8

11.1

0.230

Length of hospital stay (days)

330.7

636.2

360.0

689.3

0.184

Clozapine daily dose (mg)

261.3

155.5

271.8

129.0

0.021

  1. Bold, statistically significant.
  2. aPearson’s χy2 test.
  3. bIndependent t test.
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