Liquid Formulation Availability for Quetiapine

Formulation Status

• Quetiapine is available in oral formulations only for acute management, as explicitly stated in ESMO clinical practice guidelines 1, 2
• Quetiapine is available in liquid formulation, but only as compounded oral suspensions prepared from commercially available tablets, with no FDA-approved or commercially manufactured liquid formulation 1, 2
• Olanzapine and aripiprazole have parenteral or orally dispersible formulations available in some countries, in contrast to quetiapine 1, 2