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The Shanghai 800: prevalence of tardive dyskinesia in a Chinese psychiatric hospital

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.3.387

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.

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