OBJECTIVES: To estimate mortality risk associated with individual commonly prescribed
antipsychotics. DESIGN: Five‐year retrospective study. SETTING: Veterans national …

Background Antipsychotics are prescribed to treat various symptoms in older adults,
however, their safety in this context has not been fully evaluated. The objective was to …

Objective To investigate short-and long-term mortality risk associated with the use of
antipsychotics in dementia outpatients, assessing the risk over specific time frames and …

Objective: The use of antipsychotics to treat the behavioral symptoms of dementia is
associated with greater mortality. The authors examined the mortality risk of individual …

Importance Antipsychotic medications are associated with increased mortality in older adults
with dementia, yet their absolute effect on risk relative to no treatment or an alternative …

Background: Antipsychotic drugs are widely used to manage behavioral and psychological
symptoms in dementia despite concerns about their safety. Objective: To examine the …

Background Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory stating
that atypical antipsychotic medications increase mortality among elderly patients. However …

Objective: Mortality rates in the year following new antipsychotic medication starts for
neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia were compared with rates after starts of other …

Objectives To understand how drug therapy differently affects older women and men.
Design Population‐based, retrospective cohort study. Setting Ontario, C anada. Participants …

EDITOR: Important methodologi-cal concerns limit our confidence in the conclusions of the
recent article by Raivio and colleagues. 1 The authors suggest that neither use of atypical …