Antipsychotics

Some Care Compare information on nursing homes is too old and some is too hard to understand, reported a government watchdog.

Worries over federal audits designed to monitor nursing homes for inappropriate schizophrenia diagnosing continued to mount as some providers learned they had “failed” their check-ups months into the...

Declining exposure to the drugs has occurred evenly across nursing home resident racial and ethnic groups, according to a new study.

CMS leader balks on broader use of antipsychotic drugs … Cancer-causing H. pylori infections have seen a steady 4-decade fall, researchers report … More patients with pneumonia could be switched earlier...

I assume by now everybody is frantically auditing their resident’s charts for one word (or a derivative of it): schizophrenia! Because you might be audited for the inappropriate use of antipsychotics. 

One of the nation’s top nursing home regulators is opposed to broadening exclusions for the use of antipsychotic medications, he told attendees of a national conference Friday.

Q: The use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes is already a publicly reported quality measure. Are we headed toward even more scrutiny? A: Yes, more scrutiny is coming. In February, the Department...

Providers and quality experts are questioning why the agency hasn’t done more to review its quality measure for antipsychotic drug use.

Investigators have found significant variation in what is considered clinically appropriate use of these drugs for the U.S. hospice population.

Older adults with severe depression have better outcomes when the antipsychotic aripiprazole (Abilify) is added to their existing antidepressant prescription versus a switch to bupropion, a new study has...