Current practice of pharmacological treatment for hyperactive delirium in terminally ill cancer patients: results of a nationwide survey of Japanese palliative care physicians and liaison psychiatrists.
Yoshinobu MatsudaTatsuya MoritaKiyofumi OyaKeita TagamiAkemi Shirado NaitoHideyuki KashiwagiHiroyuki OtaniPublished in: Japanese journal of clinical oncology (2022)
Doctors have divergent practices in administration methods of the first-line antipsychotic treatment, maximum dose of antipsychotics, and choice of treatment when the first-line haloperidol treatment failed. Further studies are needed to determine the optimal treatment.