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., ...More

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS, vol.29, no.9, pp.1413-1423, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 29 Issue: 9
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.1017/s1041610217000552
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1413-1423
  • Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, primary care, GENERAL-PRACTITIONERS, DIAGNOSIS, CHALLENGES, DISCLOSURE
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

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.