Exploring dementia management attitudes in primary care: a key informant survey to primary care physicians in 25 European countries

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Petrazzuoli F., Vinker S., Koskela T. H., Frese T., Buono N., Soler J. K., ...Daha Fazla

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS, cilt.29, sa.9, ss.1413-1423, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 29 Sayı: 9
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1017/s1041610217000552
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1413-1423
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, primary care, GENERAL-PRACTITIONERS, DIAGNOSIS, CHALLENGES, DISCLOSURE
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background: Strategies for the involvement of primary care in the management of patients with presumed or diagnosed dementia are heterogeneous across Europe. We wanted to explore attitudes of primary care physicians (PCPs) when managing dementia: (i) the most popular cognitive tests, (ii) who had the right to initiate or continue cholinesterase inhibitor or memantine treatment, and (iii) the relationship between the permissiveness of these rules/guidelines and PCP's approach in the dementia investigations and assessment.