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Therapeutics
Continued use of antipsychotic drugs increased long-term mortality in patients with Alzheimer disease

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.14.4.115

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    STUDY DESIGN

    Design:

    randomised placebo-controlled trial (DART-AD). ISRCTN33368770.

    Allocation:

    concealed.*

    Blinding:

    blinded {patients, caregivers and relatives, clinicians, people administering trial drugs, and outcome assessors}†.*

    STUDY QUESTION

    Setting:

    nursing or residential care facilities in the UK.

    Patients:

    165 patients (mean age 85 y, 76% women) who lived in nursing or residential homes, had possible or probable Alzheimer disease (AD, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke/Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association criteria) and a Mini-Mental State Examination score >6 or Severe Impairment Battery score >30, and were taking antipsychotic drugs (APDs) for ⩾3 months for behavioural or psychiatric disturbance (risperidone, ⩾0.5 mg/d or ⩾10 mg of chlorpromazine or equivalent of thioridazine, haloperidol, or trifluoperazine). Exclusion criteria were inability to take capsules or complete baseline …

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    Footnotes

    • Source of funding: UK Alzheimer's Research Trust.