Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Risk of Hospitalization for Ventricular Arrhythmias or Cardiac Arrest

3,611 nursing home residents in 6 US states, comprising 649 cases hospitalized for ventricular arrhythmias or cardiac arrest between July 4, 1998, and December 30, 1999, and 2,962 controls residing in the same facilities during the same period.

Conventional and atypical antipsychotics

Matched controls residing in the same facility

Hospitalization for ventricular arrhythmias or cardiac arresthard clinical