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Effectiveness of educational interventions in improving detection and management of dementia in primary care
— cluster randomised controlled study | | Author(s) | Murna Downs, Stephen Turner, Michelle Bryans |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 332, no 7543, 25 March 2006 |
| Pages | pp 692-695 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Diagnosis ; General practice ; Care home staff ; Teaching methods ; Cluster analysis ; London ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | General practitioners (GPs) face difficulties in diagnosing and managing dementia, and they need education and training. The authors report a study of 36 general practices in central Scotland and London conducted between 1999 and 2002, Three educational interventions were randomly assigned: 8 practices were assigned to an electronic tutorial on CD-Rom; 8 to decision support software; 10 to practice based workshops; and 10 were a control group. Electronic and manual searches yielded 150 valid and usable medical records. The decision support software and the practice based workshops both significantly improved rates of detection compared with the control group. There were no significant differences by intervention in the measures of concordance with guidelines. These results indicate that decision support systems and workshops are effective in improving detection of dementia in primary care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060407208 A |
| Classmark | EA: LK7: L5: QRM: VB: 3YB: 82L: 9A * |
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