Some US nursing homes may be falsely diagnosing patients with schizophrenia to justify using powerful antipsychotic drugs to manage them.

The HHS Inspector General claims that some nursing homes are inappropriately diagnosing residents with schizophrenia and prescribing antipsychotics without proper oversight.

Watchdog report flags antipsychotic misuse in nursing homes, revealing false schizophrenia diagnoses to inflate CMS ratings and compromise care.

As psychiatrists opt out of Medicare, APRNs and PAs fill the gaps ...

From MedPage Today. Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for death. "Nursing ...

Open Label Outpatient Switch Study Demonstrates Symptom Stability During Transition from Oral Atypical Antipsychotics to Cobenfy.

A new cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women with psychotic disorders who discontinued antipsychotic treatment during pregnancy had a higher ...

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For patients in nursing homes, treatment with antipsychotic medicines is pretty much routine. Though the drugs were developed to treat schizophrenia, they're also used to manage the dementia-related ...

Antipsychotics have been linked to respiratory failure in a dose-dependent manner among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), results of a large observational study show.