Opinion|Videos|January 27, 2025
Improving Outcomes Through Patient Education and Addressing Unmet Needs
Panelists discuss how comprehensive patient education about tardive dyskinesia risk factors, early warning signs, and available treatments is crucial for improving outcomes, while highlighting remaining unmet needs including better screening tools, enhanced provider training, expanded access to VMAT2 inhibitors, and more research into prevention strategies and novel therapeutic approaches.
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Video series above is prompted by the following:
- What role does patient education and awareness play in improving outcomes for those at risk for or living with TD?
- What unmet needs remain in the care of patients with TD, and how can further research or collaboration address these gaps?
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