Footnotes

• Contributors HF and PE equally contributed to the planning, conduct and reporting of the case and corresponding literature search for the work described in the Letter to the Editor, ‘Risperidone-induced neutropenia: an adverse side-effect in the palliative management of delirium in a patient with lymphoma’. HF is responsible for the overall content as a guarantor.

• Competing interests None.

• Ethics approval This Letter to the Editor submission was discussed with the Barwon Health Research Department who felt that no Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board approval was necessary. They felt that the patient has been deidentified in such a way that no individual could identify the patient with any degree of certainty.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.