Open AccessUnexplained Variation Across US Nursing Homes in Antipsychotic Prescribing Rates
Author(s) -
Yong Chen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.469
Subject(s) - antipsychotic , medicine , dementia , confidence interval , psychosis , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , population , typical antipsychotic , poisson regression , emergency medicine , atypical antipsychotic , environmental health , disease
Serious safety concerns related to the use of antipsychotics have not decreased the prescribing of these agents to nursing home (NH) residents. We assessed the extent to which resident clinical characteristics and institutional prescribing practice were associated with antipsychotic prescribing.
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