Abstract:Background There is no consensus for assessment and management of patients with serious mental illness (SMI) who are at risk for cardiac morbidity and mortality due to antipsychotic-associated QTc prolongation. Objective The objective of this review was to assess methods for risk scoring, QT correction calculation, and clinical management in SMI patients with antipsychotic-associated QTc prolongation. Methods A search was performed in PubMed for case reports that described QTc prolongation in adult patients wi… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.