@article{Schnier_C-2023_144374,
title = {Antipsychotic drug prescribing and mortality in people with dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic:a retrospective cohort study in Wales, UK},
author = {Schnier, C. and McCarthy, A. and Morales, D. and Akbari, A. and Sofat, R. and Dale, C. and Takhar, R. and Mamas, M. and Khunti, K. and Zaccardi, F. and Sudlow, C. and Wilkinson, T.},
month = {aug},
year = {2023},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Concerns have been raised that antipsychotic drug prescribing, which has been associated with increased mortality in people with dementia, might have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social restrictions imposed to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2. We used multisource, routinely collected health-care data from Wales, UK to investigate prescribing and mortality variations in people with dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.},
pages = {e421-e430},
volume = {4},
issue = {8},
journal = {The Lancet Healthy Longevity},
publisher = {Elsevier},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-7568(23)00105-8},
}
