A gap in Manitoba's reporting system means the majority of the province's nursing homes can't monitor how many residents are being given antipsychotic drugs without a diagnosis.
Nearly one quarter of nursing home residents in Winnipeg are being given antipsychotic medications without a shown clinical need, a CBC investigation revealed. But the scale of the problem in the province’s other 87 homes is unknown.
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