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Assessing needs from patient, carer and professional perspectives — the Camberwell Assessment of Need for Elderly people in primary care
Author(s)	Katherine Walters, Steve Iliffe, Sharon See Tai
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 29, no 6, November 2000
Pages	pp 505-510
Keywords	General practice ; Medical care ; Informal care ; Needs [elderly] ; Medical workers ; Evaluation ; London.
Annotation	Despite evidence that needs assessments of older people can improve survival and function when linked to effective long-term management, there is no structured needs assessment in widespread use. The Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly (CANE) is a new multi-disciplinary needs assessment tool which includes the perspectives of patients, carers and health professionals. This article reports on a feasibility study based on a sample of 84 patients from four general practices in inner city and suburban north-west London. CANE is found to be feasible as a research tool in primary care, and can identify unmet needs not previously known about by health professionals. A shorter version of CANE, focusing on areas of poor agreement between patients and health professionals and with high levels of need, could have potential in the structured assessment of needs of older people in primary care. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010126202 A
Classmark	L5: LK: P6: IK: QT: 4C: 82L
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