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The article is devoted to the study of the role of maintenance therapy in the comparative effectiveness of the quality and structure of remissions in recurrent schizophrenia. The introduction of criteria for remission developed in the outpatient population of schizophrenia made it possible to prove the possibility of achieving a deeper and more stable effect, as well as a higher level of social functioning during modern antipsychotic pharmacotherapy. The proposed criteria for remission can be used in the practical work of a psychiatrist as standards for modern long-term antipsychotic therapy, as well as to increase the effectiveness of outpatient therapy for schizophrenia patients. In addition, clinical and functional criteria can be used in comparative therapeutic studies along with the concept of a therapeutic response, and possibly later completely replace it, since they are a more integrative and rigorous assessment standard that takes into account functioning in accordance with the modern biopsychosocial model of schizophrenia.