Recent studies indicate that many patients with schizophrenia receive pooror inadequate care.
Many patients with schizophrenia have failed to benefit from newer medications and improvements in psychosocial treatments. In some cases this failure is due to the nature of the patient's illness, as there are still patients who do not respond to all available medications. Others with severe cognitive impairments may be unable to benefit from the innovative psychosocial treatments that have been developed during the 1990's. For these individuals, the severity of their illness is the obstacle that stands in the way of improvement. For others, mental health care systems have failed to make the best treatments available.