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. 2021 Jun 1;181(6):861-863.
doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.0224.

Assessment of Psychotropic Drug Prescribing Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada, During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nathan M Stall  1   2   3   4 , Jonathan S Zipursky  1   2   4   5 , Jagadish Rangrej  6 , Aaron Jones  7   8 , Andrew P Costa  7   8   9   10 , Michael P Hillmer  4   6 , Kevin Brown  11   12
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Assessment of Psychotropic Drug Prescribing Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada, During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nathan M Stall et al. JAMA Intern Med. .

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses data from the Ontario Drug Benefit database to assess prescribing patterns of psychotropic drugs among nursing home residents in Ontario, Canada during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Zipursky reported receiving support from the Eliot Phillipson Clinician-Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto Department of Medicine and payments from private law firms for medicolegal opinions regarding the safety and effectiveness of drugs outside the submitted work. Dr Stall reported receiving support outside the submitted work from the Eliot Phillipson Clinician-Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto Department of Medicine and receiving a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.. Changes in Psychotropic Drug Prescribing Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada, From April 2018 to September 2020
Monthly proportion of residents filling a prescription for each drug class from April 2018 to September 2020. As of March 1, 2020, 77 291 residents were living in 623 licensed nursing homes in Ontario. Expected prescribing was based on secular trends before the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown. The blue vertical dotted line represents the beginning of the lockdown (March 2020) in Ontario.
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