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- Title
Risk of death associated with the use of conventional versus atypical antipsychotic drugs among elderly patients.
- Authors
Schneeweiss, Sebastian; Setoguchi, Soko; Brookhart, Alan; Dormuth, Colin; Wang, Philip S
- Abstract
Public health advisories have warned that the use of atypical antipsychotic medications increases the risk of death among elderly patients. We assessed the short-term mortality in a population-based cohort of elderly people in British Columbia who were prescribed conventional and atypical antipsychotic medications.
- Publication
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2007, Vol 176, Issue 5, p627
- ISSN
1488-2329
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1503/cmaj.061250