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Inappropriate long-term use of antipsychotic drugs is common among people with dementia living in specialized care units

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, February 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#33 of 469)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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Title
Inappropriate long-term use of antipsychotic drugs is common among people with dementia living in specialized care units
Published in
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, February 2013
DOI 10.1186/2050-6511-14-10
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Authors

Maria Gustafsson, Stig Karlsson, Hugo Lövheim

Abstract

Antipsychotic drugs are widely used for the treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), despite their limited efficacy and concerns about safety. The aim of this study was to describe antipsychotic drug therapy among people with dementia living in specialized care units in northern Sweden.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 109 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 15%
Researcher 14 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 9%
Other 25 23%
Unknown 24 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 33%
Psychology 11 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 7%
Unspecified 5 5%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 23 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 22 October 2023.
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#2,308,050
of 24,654,957 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology
#33
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Outputs of similar age
#23,320
of 294,155 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology
#3
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,654,957 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 469 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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