Nursing Home Characteristics Associated with Antipsychotic Prescribing After Implementation of the National Antipsychotic Reduction Initiative (ARI)

To describe nursing home (NH) characteristics associated with antipsychotic use and test whether associations changed after implementation of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care's antipsychotic reduction initiative (ARI). Longitudinal quasi-experimental design using data from mult...

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Published in:Clinical gerontologist 2024-10, Vol.47 (5), p.778-788
Main Authors: Holmes, Sarah D., Qato, Danya M., Briesacher, Becky, Zarowitz, Barbara, Brandt, Nicole, McArdle, Patrick F., Fleming, Sean, Johnson, Abree, Koethe, Benjamin, Desai, Abhilash, Lucas, Judith A., Wastila, Linda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Antipsychotic Agents - administration & dosage
Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use
Antipsychotics
Dementia
Dementia - drug therapy
Female
Homes for the Aged - statistics & numerical data
Humans
long-term care
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Nursing homes
Nursing Homes - statistics & numerical data
Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data
Prescribing
Psychotropic drugs
Quasi-experimental methods
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:To describe nursing home (NH) characteristics associated with antipsychotic use and test whether associations changed after implementation of the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care's antipsychotic reduction initiative (ARI). Longitudinal quasi-experimental design using data from multiple sources and piecewise linear mixed models were used for statistical analyses. There was a significant decrease in monthly antipsychotic use across the study period (pre-ARI b = −0.0003, p 
ISSN:0731-7115
1545-2301
1545-2301
DOI:10.1080/07317115.2024.2346906