Concurrent antipsychotic use in older adults treated with antidepressants in Asia.
Min DongLiang-Nan ZengQinge ZhangGabor S UngvariChee H NgHelen F K ChiuTian-Mei SiKang SimAjit AvasthiSandeep GroverMian-Yoon ChongKok-Yoon CheeShigenobu KanbaMin-Soo LeeShu-Yu YangPichet UdomratnRoy A KallivayalilAndi J TanraMargarita M MaramisWinston W ShenNorman SartoriusRathi MahendranChay-Hoon TanNaotaka ShinfukuYu-Tao XiangPublished in: Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (2019)
Around a third of older adult psychiatric patients had concurrent AP and AD use in the Asian countries/regions surveyed. Considering the uncertain effectiveness and questionable safety of the AP and AD combination in this patient population, such should be cautiously used.