Effectiveness of combining atypical antipsychotics and psychosocial rehabilitation in a community mental health center setting

This article presents a consecutive case series of 70 patients treated with olanzapine, case management, and psychosocial rehabilitation in a communit y mental health setting. This group demonstrated highly significant improve ment on all analyzed measures of symptoms and psychosocial function at 6-mo nth follow-up. These findings suggest that results of efficacy studies of o lanzapine will generalize to the community mental health setting. Furthermo re, prescribing olanzapine in combination with case management and rehabili tation yields positive functional outcomes.