How well do psychotropic medications match mental health diagnoses? A national view of potential off-label prescribing in VHA nursing homes [4]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-108

  French, Dustin D ^a   Campbell, Robert R ^a   Spehar, Andrea M ^a,b   Accomando, John ^a  

^a James A Haley Veterans Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG UTILIZATION; EXERCISE; GOVERNMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING HOMES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 33947607867     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl131     Document Type: Letter

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