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Service innovations — a dedicated drug treatment service for dementia
Author(s)	Bart Sheehan, Karim Saad
Journal title	Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 30, no 4, April 2006
Pages	pp 146-148
Source	http://pb.rcpsych.org
Keywords	Dementia ; Referrals ; Drugs ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Clinical surveys ; Coventry.
Annotation	A specialised community-based service in Coventry dedicated to the management of patients on anti-dementia drugs is described. All new referrals in a 6-month period were included; and data on clinical and demographic background, service performance and cognitive, functional and behavioural outcomes were recorded. Of 96 patients initiated on anti-dementia drugs, most had dementia of mild to moderate severity and had heterogeneous diagnoses. Significant improvements in cognition, behaviour and function were found. This dedicated domiciliary drug treatment service for dementia achieved high levels of clinical activity and outcomes at least as good as clinical trials, and may be an attractive choice of service model. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-060421201 A
Classmark	EA: L5R: LLD: N3: 3G: 87G
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