Antipsychotic drugs in community-based sheltered-care homes

Antipsychotic Drugs

The term psychosis refers to a variety of mental disorders characterized by one or more of the following symptoms: diminished and distorted capacity to process information and draw logical conclusions, hallucinations, delusions, incoherence or marked loosening of associations, catatonic or disorganized behavior, and aggression or violence. Antipsychotic drugs lessen these symptoms regardless of...

Differential risk of death in older residents in nursing homes prescribed specific antipsychotic drugs: population based cohort study

OBJECTIVE To assess risks of mortality associated with use of individual antipsychotic drugs in elderly residents in nursing homes. DESIGN Population based cohort study with linked data from Medicaid, Medicare, the Minimum Data Set, the National Death Index, and a national assessment of nursing home quality. SETTING Nursing homes in the United States. PARTICIPANTS 75,445 new users of anti...

Antipsychotic drugs and hypothermia

Novel Antipsychotic Drugs

539 books, and those outside the field who need to look up terms related to medicine. While the scientific terms are not described at such a basic level to suggest a lay audience, there is a wide range of medically related issues referenced. This volume certainly has its own unique niche among reference books, but it is not, and cannot substitute for, a traditional dictionary. The field of schi...

antipsychotic drugs and sudden death

sudden, unexpected death may occur in apparently healthy individuals. its occurrence in psychiatric patients has raised the concern that the use of psychotropics, especially antipsychotics, may be associated with an increased risk of sudden death. this concern is maintained even though not all psychiatric patients who have succumbed to sudden death have been on psychotropics. early reports pres...