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| Title |
Withdrawal versus continuation of chronic antipsychotic drugs for behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people with dementia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2013
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd007726.pub2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tom Declercq, Mirko Petrovic, Majda Azermai, Robert Vander Stichele, An IM De Sutter, Mieke L van Driel, Thierry Christiaens |
| Abstract |
Antipsychotic agents are often used to treat neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in dementia, although the literature is sceptical about their long-term use for this indication. Their effectiveness is limited and there is concern about adverse effects, including higher mortality with long-term use. When behavioural strategies have failed and drug therapy is instituted, regular attempts to withdraw these drugs are recommended. Physicians, nurses and families of older people with dementia are often reluctant to try to stop antipsychotics, fearing deterioration of NPS. Strategies to reduce antipsychotic use have been proposed, but a systematic review of interventions aimed at withdrawal of antipsychotic agents in older people with dementia has not yet been performed. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 53 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 11 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 19% |
| United States | 6 | 11% |
| Canada | 4 | 8% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Belgium | 1 | 2% |
| Grenada | 1 | 2% |
| Hungary | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 15 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 39 | 74% |
| Scientists | 7 | 13% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 404 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 395 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 65 | 16% |
| Researcher | 56 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 42 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 31 | 8% |
| Other | 97 | 24% |
| Unknown | 71 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 168 | 42% |
| Psychology | 37 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 28 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 28 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 3% |
| Other | 47 | 12% |
| Unknown | 85 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 September 2023.
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#800,103
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#1,499
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#5,442
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#21
of 212 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,738,558 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,137 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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