Characteristics and mortality among hospitalized patients treated with intramuscular antipsychotics: analysis of a United States hospital database

Curr Drug Saf. 2010 Jul 2;5(3):203-11. doi: 10.2174/157488610791698262.

Abstract

Mortality rates across matched cohorts of hospitalized patients treated with IM olanzapine, haloperidol, and/or ziprasidone in a hospital database were compared. Using propensity score matching, matched cohorts of IM olanzapine- (N=2,984) and IM haloperidol-treated patients (N=2,984) and IM olanzapine- (N=2,876) and IM ziprasidone-treated patients (N=2,876) were obtained. The study outcome was in-hospital death within 2 days of administering IM antipsychotic. Incidence of death was not statistically different between olanzapine-ziprasidone cohorts (OR=1.21, 95% CI 0.92-1.59). The olanzapine cohort demonstrated a significantly lower death incidence than the haloperidol cohort (OR=0.73, 95% CI 0.57-0.93; p=.011). The results suggest that patients treated with IM olanzapine do not have a significantly greater risk of death than patients treated with IM haloperidol or IM ziprasidone.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Antipsychotic Agents / administration & dosage
  • Antipsychotic Agents / adverse effects*
  • Benzodiazepines / administration & dosage
  • Benzodiazepines / adverse effects*
  • Cohort Studies
  • Databases, Factual
  • Female
  • Haloperidol / administration & dosage
  • Haloperidol / adverse effects*
  • Hospital Mortality
  • Humans
  • Injections, Intramuscular
  • Male
  • Olanzapine
  • Piperazines / administration & dosage
  • Piperazines / adverse effects*
  • Thiazoles / administration & dosage
  • Thiazoles / adverse effects*
  • United States
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Antipsychotic Agents
  • Piperazines
  • Thiazoles
  • Benzodiazepines
  • ziprasidone
  • Haloperidol
  • Olanzapine