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Fifteen year comparison of antipsychotic use in people with dementia within hospital and nursing home settings: sequential cross-sectional study
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 06/15/09

Connelly PJ et al. - Compared to a long-stay hospital setting, antipsychotic drug use for people with dementia in nursing homes has risen and become less systematic. This cannot be explained by increasing core behaviour symptoms or differences in physical dependency.

Methods

Sequential cross-sectional studies assessing twelve behaviours and seven measures of function for each patient.
Antipsychotic and antidepressant use was obtained from current prescription records.

Results

Regular antipsychotic use in hospital fell between 1990 and 1998.
In 1998 use in nursing homes was significantly greater than in hospital, and increased between 1998 and 2005.
Noisiness/verbal aggression (NVA) was the only behaviour more commonly associated with regular antipsychotic use over that timescale.
Those with low levels of core symptoms (p = 0.021) and high dependency patients (p = 0.001) were more likely to be receiving regular antipsychotics in nursing homes than in hospital.
Depression was not treated well even when identified.

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