Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

The Prescribing Cascade (continued)

• The resident is noted by the nursing staff to be shaky and stiff, but no change is made in the olanzapine dose. She becomes increasingly lethargic. She is described as rigid and stooped over with ambulation and begins to have more difficulty with activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, toileting, and tranferring[sic] She begins to require a wheelchair.