Large adjusted cohorts do not show a meaningful overall increase in major congenital malformations for antipsychotics as a class.
- Public-source certainty descriptor
- moderate—large adjusted cohorts
- Formal appraisal
- Not started — full text and independent appraisal pending
- Exposure window
- first trimester
- Comparator
- no antipsychotic exposure
Huybrechts: atypical adjusted RR 1.05 (95% CI 0.96–1.16); typical adjusted RR 0.90 (0.62–1.31)
Contextual class evidence only; do not treat the class point estimates as drug-, route-, fixed-combination-, emergency-formulation-, or LAI-specific estimates. Class averages can hide rare drug-specific effects; confounding, live-birth selection, and exposure misclassification remain.
Sources, citation controls, and verification state
Linked sources
- class risk estimate; drug-specific signalEXT-073 · Not formally appraised
- guideline recommendation; emergency guideline recommendation; emergency adverse-effect management; guideline decision principle; lactation decision principleEXT-072 · Not formally appraised
- PMID
- Not populated in v0.95
- DOI
- Pending DOI verification
- Exact locator
- Pending exact table/figure/page/supplement locator
- Access date
- 2026-07-29
- Integrity check
- Same-day source surveillance recorded; source-by-source correction/retraction verification remains pending
- Internal verification
- Source-linked; independent external verification pending