Study examines prescribing of antipsychotic medications for nursing home residents

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 05:56 in Health & Medicine

Older adults newly admitted to nursing homes with high rates of antipsychotic prescribing in the previous year are more likely to receive antipsychotic agents, according to a report in the January 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Of these treated patients, some had no identified clinical indication for this therapy...

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