New population-based study of all nursing home residents in Ontario, Canada, found increased prescribing of psychotropic drugs at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Psychotropic drugs prescribed more for nursing home residents in Ontario, Canada, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which persisted through September 2020.
Although absolute increases in prescribing were small, they were disproportionate to expected secular prescribing trends from April 2018 to February 2020, and they were distinct from observed prescribing changes for other drugs during the pandemic.
‘Psychotropic drug prescriptions found to raise during COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.’
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The study was done by authors Nathan M. Stall, M.D., of Sinai Health and the University Health Network in Toronto.
Source-Eurekalert
