Another study questioning the safety of antipsychotics in the elderly especially in LTC. A matched cohort study of over 25,000 patients provides some evidence that traditional antipsychotics are worse than atypicals and atypicals are worse than no drug treatment.
Full text is available at the Annals of Internal Medicine website
Antipsychotics increase death risk among seniors
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