Improving psychotropic drug prescription in nursing home patients with dementia: design of a cluster randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Neuropsychiatric symptoms are highly prevalent in nursing home patients with dementia. Despite modest effectiveness and considerable side effects, psychotropic drugs are frequently prescribed for these neuropsychiatric symptoms. This raises questions whether psychotropic drugs are approp...

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Autores principales: Smeets, Claudia HW, Smalbrugge, Martin, Gerritsen, Debby L, Nelissen-Vrancken, Marjorie HJMG, Wetzels, Roland B, van der Spek, Klaas, Zuidema, Sytse U, Koopmans, Raymond TCM
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
Materias:
Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24180295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-280

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24180295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-280

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