Predictors of nursing home admission among Alzheimer's disease patients with psychosis and/or agitation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The purpose of this study is to identify factors that predict nursing home placement among community-dwelling Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients with psychosis and/or agitation in a randomized clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00015548).

Methods

418 participants with AD enrolled in the Clinical Antipsychotic Trial of Intervention Effectiveness - AD (CATIE-AD) trial of anti-psychotic medications and having no evidence of nursing home use at baseline were followed at 9 months post-random assignment using data provided by caregiver proxy. χ2 tests, t-tests and Cox proportional hazard modeling were used to examine the baseline correlates of nursing home use.

Results

Of outpatients with no prior nursing home use, 15% were placed in a nursing home in t

SUBMITTER: Miller EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3951873 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature