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Q Does a training and support intervention for nursing home staff reduce use of neuroleptic drugs in elderly residents with dementia?
METHODS
Design:
cluster randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
concealed.
Blinding:
blinded (outcome assessor).
Follow up period:
12 months.
Setting:
12 nursing homes registered to accept people with dementia in London, Newcastle, and Oxford, UK.
Patients:
349 residents (median age 82 y, 63% men) of nursing homes that had ⩾25% of residents with dementia who were taking neuroleptic drugs.
Intervention:
drug prescriptions of residents were reviewed at baseline. The consulting psychiatrist wrote to prescribing physicians at each home, recommending cessation of psychotropic drugs prescribed for >3 …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Professor R Howard, King’s College, London, UK. r.howard{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk
Source of funding: Alzheimer’s Society.