Antipsychotics and Risk of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort and Case-Crossover Study.
Kim S J LaoJiaxi ZhaoJoseph Edgar BlaisLam LamIan C K WongFrank M C BesagWing Chung ChangDavid J CastleEsther Wai Yin ChanPublished in: CNS drugs (2020)
Our results suggest that recent use of antipsychotics is associated with NMS. Although a case-only design inherently controls for confounding by time-invariant factors, residual confounding by acute medical conditions with similar presentations to NMS cannot be fully excluded.