Healio (12/23, Herpen) reported, “Use of antipsychotic medication in psychiatric patients led to decreases in assault risk against personnel within emergency settings,” researches concluded after analyzing data on medication orders “as well as assault incident reports…culled from electronic health records based on 17,056 total visits by 9,870 individual patients to urban psychiatric emergency locations over more than 1.3 million hours during a five-year period from January 2014 to December 2019.” The findings were published online Dec. 14 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Antipsychotics linked to decreased assault risk for emergency personnel “Robert Herpen, Healio, December 23, 2021