TY  - JOUR
T1  - ANtipsychotic therapy for dementia in elderly patients
AU  - Kassabian S
Y1  - 2009/01/12
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2008.553
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 87
EP  - 89
VL  - 169
IS  - 1
N2  - 
Their control group of adults with dementia may have had recent physician contact, but these patients may not have met the threshold of a clinician's judgment that behavioral agitation or psychotic findings warranted antipsychotic treatment. While patients with tics, parkinsonism, or brain tumor disorders were appropriately excluded in evaluating outcomes, those included likely still comprised a notable number of patients with agitated dementia, who may have been selectively biased into the treatment subgroups. A different control group focused on treatment indication, instead of comparing with other patients with dementia, might have proved more informative.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2008.553
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2008.553
ER  -