Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Disclosure No potencial conflict of interest Purpose of the study: In recent years there were growing research regarding interventions in first-episode psychosis and patients with high risk for psychosis. Consequences are building of early intervention teams and hoped best care to psychotic patients on early phases. There are published guidelines regarding mainly treatment but few about diagnosis and medical work-up in first-episode psychosis. There are no single approach to medical work-up in first-episode psychosis but clinicians who diagnosis and treat first-episode psychosis patients should reflect on what kind of medical investigation should do. Once the diagnosis of psychotic illness, like schizophrenia, implicates absence of a medical condition that could account for the clinical picture a medical work-up is important to the diagnosis. The diagnosis of psychotic disorder also implies the subsequent treatment with antipsychotic medication and initial work-up has also the aim to ensure the safety in its use. Initial medical
Institution: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2255564002