Mortality Risk of Antipsychotic Dose and Duration in Nursing Home Residents with Chronic or Acute Indications.

Objectives: To examine disease-specific associations between antipsychotic dose and duration and all-cause mortality.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: A 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries who had a Minimum Data Set 2.

Quality of psychopharmacological medication prescribing and mortality in Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes.

Objectives: To examine the influence of quality measures of psychopharmacological medication (PPM) prescribing on all-cause mortality in a Medicare long-stay nursing home (NH) population.

Design: Longitudinal.

Setting: 2007-09 Medicare data linked to Minimum Data Set 2.