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Comment
. 2016 Nov;19(4):123.
doi: 10.1136/eb-2016-102434. Epub 2016 Sep 12.

Routine use of antipsychotics to prevent or treat delirium is not recommended

Taro Kishi  1
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Routine use of antipsychotics to prevent or treat delirium is not recommended

Taro Kishi. Evid Based Ment Health. 2016 Nov.
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: TK has received speaker's honoraria from Abbvie, Astellas, Daiichi Sankyo, Dainippon Sumitomo, Eisai, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Yoshitomi, Otsuka, Meiji, Mochida, Shionogi, Tanabe-Mitsubishi, Tsumura, Novartis and Pfizer and has a Fujita Health University School of Medicine research grant and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B).

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