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Nursing Homes Falsely Diagnose Patients as Schizophrenic to Sedate Them, Report Says

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(MedPage Today) -- Nursing home staff overdiagnoses their dementia patients with schizophrenia so they can prescribe antipsychotics in order to make the patients easier to manage, a report from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) found....

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