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- Title
Antipsychotic therapy and short-term serious events in older adults with dementia.
- Authors
Rochon, Paula A; Normand, Sharon-Lise; Gomes, Tara; Gill, Sudeep S; Anderson, Geoffrey M; Melo, Magda; Sykora, Kathy; Lipscombe, Lorraine; Bell, Chaim M; Gurwitz, Jerry H
- Abstract
Antipsychotic therapy is widely used to treat behavioral problems in older adults with dementia. Cohort studies evaluating the safety of antipsychotic therapy generally focus on a single adverse event. We compared the rate of developing any serious event, a composite outcome defined as an event serious enough to lead to an acute care hospital admission or death within 30 days of initiating antipsychotic therapy, to better estimate the overall burden of short-term harm associated with these agents.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2008, Vol 168, Issue 10, p1090
- ISSN
1538-3679
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinte.168.10.1090