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| Can psychiatric liaison reduce neuroleptic use and reduce health service utilization for dementia patients residing in care facilities | | Author(s) | Clive Ballard, Ian Powell, Ian James |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 2, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp pp 140-145 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Psychiatric treatment ; Liaison ; Drugs ; Health services ; Usage [services]. |
| Annotation | The quality of care (Dementia Care Mapping), the severity of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms (BPSD - Neuropsychiatric Inventory) expressive language skills (Sheffield Acquired Language Disorder scale), service utilization and use of neuroleptic drugs was compared over 9 months between 6 care facilities receiving a psychiatric liaison service and 3 facilities receiving the usual clinical support, using a simple blind test. There was significant reduction neuroleptic usage in the facilities receiving the liaison service, but not for those receiving standard clinical support. Thus, a resource-efficient psychiatric liaison service can reduce neuroleptic drug use and reduce some aspects of health service use; but a more extensive intervention is probably required to improve the overall quality of care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020215213 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: KW: LP: QAK: LLD: L: QLD |
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