Psychotropic drug prescription in nursing home patients with dementia: Influence of environmental correlates and staff distress on physicians' prescription behavior

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1632-1639

  Zuidema, Sytse U ^a   De Jonghe, Jos F M ^b   Verhey, Frans R J ^c   Koopmans, Raymond T C M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dementia; environment; nursing home; psychotropic drug use; staff distress

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; APATHY; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; WORKLOAD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80455150389     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610211001438     Document Type: Article

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