Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:387-389
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
The Shanghai 800: prevalence of tardive dyskinesia in a Chinese psychiatric hospital
GN Ko, LD Zhang, WW Yan, MD Zhang, D Buchner, ZY Xia, RJ Wyatt and DV Jeste
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
The authors found that 73 (8.4%) of 866 patients with chronic schizophrenia
in the Shanghai Psychiatric Hospital who had been treated with neuroleptics
had tardive dyskinesia. This low prevalence rate is possibly ascribable to
the use of relatively low doses of neuroleptics.
