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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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Prescribing cascade in a geropsychiatric patient: A slippery slope
Patricia A Pepa1, Michael H Langley-DeGroot2, Oresta S Rule3
1 Department of Pharmacy, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
3 School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Correspondence Address:
Patricia A Pepa
200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA, 92103
USA
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DOI: 10.4103/jgmh.jgmh_17_17
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A prescribing cascade is a situation, in which an adverse drug reaction is mistaken for a new medication condition, and a new medication is prescribed. We present a case, in which risperidone led to a prescribing cascade in a geriatric patient. We share this case to improve awareness and vigilance of prescribing cascades in the geropsychiatric population.
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