Patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) benefit from early intervention services. A new report in AJP in Advance suggests that one such intervention, known as OPUS, is as effective (and in some cases superior) in real-world clinical practice as compared to use of OPUS in clinical trials.
This finding is based on five-year outcome data, made up of two years of OPUS intervention and three years of follow up (N=3,328).