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Enrolled
residents of nursing or residential homes in four
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areas
(2001-2004); followed patients to April 2006
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All patients had
been diagnosed with possible or
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probable
Alzheimer’s and all had taken APs
for
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≥
3 months (APs = risperidone,
thioridazine, haloperidol,
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trifluoperazine, or chlorpromazine)
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Mean duration of
drug use: 25 months
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