Industry Resources | August 12, 2020
Under-Enforced & Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes
In July 2020, the Democratic staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Researchers published results from a study analyzing the receipt of antipsychotics in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as the number of citations for misuse of antipsychotics. The researchers analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The goal was to determine data on antipsychotic use rates, and citations in SNFs in the U.S . . .