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Effective strategies for changing physicians' behavior: insights from research on diffusion of innovations — (Special section: Educating physicians in the detection of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias)
Author(s)	Barbara G Vickrey
Journal title	Clinical Gerontologist, vol 29, no 2, 2005
Pages	pp 25-34
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Medical care ; General practitioners ; Attitude ; United States of America.
Annotation	The design and testing of new models for improving the quality of dementia care should draw on the broader literature on diffusion of innovations in health care and other settings, and knowledge about types of strategies likely to be effective in changing physician and healthcare organisational practices around care for dementia. At the individual physician level, such strategies should be interactive and employ social influence-based methods like opinion leaders, academic detailing, study groups, and others. It is likely that for a complex and chronic condition like dementia, much of the emphasis on improving care should target creation, testing and replication of effective models for delivering care within different health care organisations. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070413203 A
Classmark	EA: LK: QT6: DP: 7T
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