Differential impact of two risk communications on antipsychotic prescribing to people with dementia in Scotland: segmented regression time series analysis 2001-2011.

Background: Regulatory risk communications are an important method for disseminating drug safety information, but their impact varies. Two significant UK risk communications about antipsychotic use in older people with dementia were issued in 2004 and 2009. These varied considerably in their content and dissemination, allowing examination of their differential impact.

An observational study of psychotropic drug use and initiation in older patients resident in their own home or in care.

Objective: to compare the prescription of psychotropic medications for patients living in care homes with that for patients living at home.

Design And Setting: retrospective population database study in the Tayside region of Scotland.

Subjects: 70,297 patients aged ≥65 and followed until death or the end of the study.

The burden of psychotropic drug prescribingin people with dementia: a populationdatabase study.

Objective: to compare psychotropic prescribing in older people with dementia and the general elderly population.

Design And Setting: retrospective population database study in 315 General Practices.

Subjects: there were 271,365 patients aged > or = 65, of which 10,058 (3.

Predictors of discharge destination for 234 patients admitted to a combined geriatric medicine/old age psychiatry unit.

Objective: To examine the factors that predicted discharge destinations of all patients admitted to a combined geriatric medicine/old age psychiatry unit over a 4-year period.

Method: Data regarding discharge destinations, active medical problems and demographics of 234 patients admitted to the unit were analysed using non-parametric bivariate correlation and logistic regression analysis.

Results: Independence for activities of daily living (ADL) was the key predictor of discharge destination.