The Russian Ministry of Health has prepared a draft order to approve…

The Russian Ministry of Health has prepared a draft order to approve a new standard for the treatment of schizophrenia in Russia. The Ministry plans to update the current treatment guidelines for schizophrenia.

Consensus

• The Ministry of Health has prepared a project for updating the standard of care for schizophrenia
• The new standard will exclude family therapy sessions with patients
• The updated standard will include additional diagnostic tests for HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis
• The new standard will introduce medications such as brexpiprazole and tetrabenazine
• The standard will remove the use of alprazolam

Points of divergence

• The project was published on the federal portal of normative legal acts — kommersant
• The updated standard includes plasmapheresis and hem sorption as treatment methods — vesti