Risk of Mortality Associated With Atypical Antipsychotic use: A National Cohort Study of Older Adults With Depression and Parkinson's Disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Inappropriate AAP use is associated with a higher risk of all-cause-mortality in older patients with PD which is mainly mediated by pneumonia. Therefore, inappropriate AAP use should be avoided to improve quality of care in PD. PMID: 32147383 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Source Type: research