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A study of medication use among 850 residents of 12 representative-care facilities in Massachusetts shows that despite the growing of the risks of psychoactive drug use in elderly patients, this was exposed to high levels of sedative/hypnotic and antipsychotic. Choice of medication within a given class was often suboptimal, and use of standing versus as-needed orders was often not in keeping with concepts in geriatric psychopharmacology. Additional research is to determine how best to improve these patterns of medication use. (KIE)
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