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sedative-antipsychotic-harm-in-dementia

4 studies tagged sedative-antipsychotic-harm-in-dementia, dated 2015-03-01 to 2025-10-01. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

Newest in this topic

  1. Benzodiazepine or Antipsychotic Use and Mortality Risk Among Patients With Dementia in Hospice Care 2025-10-01
  2. Multiple adverse outcomes associated with antipsychotic use in people with dementia: population based matched cohort study 2024-04-17
  3. Antipsychotics, other psychotropics, and the risk of death in patients with dementia: number needed to harm 2015-05-01

Studies

4 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2015 to 2025

Top journals

  • BMJ 1
  • JAMA Network Open 1
  • JAMA internal medicine 1
  • JAMA psychiatry 1

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  1. Benzodiazepine or Antipsychotic Use and Mortality Risk Among Patients With Dementia in Hospice Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-10-01 Treatments

    In this national case-control study of nursing home residents with ADRD receiving hospice care, initiation of benzodiazepine or antipsychotic use was associated with increased 180-day mortality.

  2. Multiple adverse outcomes associated with antipsychotic use in people with dementia: population based matched cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. BMJ 2024-04-17 Treatments

    Antipsychotic use compared with non-use in adults with dementia was associated with increased risks of stroke, venous thromboembolism, myocardial infarction, heart failure, fracture, pneumonia, and acute kidney injury, but not ventricular arrhythmia.

  3. Antipsychotics, other psychotropics, and the risk of death in patients with dementia: number needed to harm

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2015-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Compared with respective matched nonusers, individuals receiving haloperidol had an increased mortality risk of 3.8% (95% CI, 1.0%-6.6%; P Conclusions and relevance The absolute effect of antipsychotics on mortality in elderly patients with dementia may be higher than previously reported and increases with dose.

  4. Cumulative use of strong anticholinergics and incident dementia: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2015-03-01 How common it is

    The most common anticholinergic classes used were tricyclic antidepressants, first-generation antihistamines, and bladder antimuscarinics.

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