The costs of medical care for patients with schizophrenia were calculated from the European Cohort Study of Schizophrenia (EuroSC). This was a naturalistic, 2-year, follow-up study in patients recruited from France (n=288), Germany (n=618), and the United Kingdom (n=302).
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