• General practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and experiences of managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: protocol of a mixed methods systematic review and meta-ethnography 

  Jennings, Aisling A.; Foley, Tony; Walsh, Kieran A.; Coffey, Alice; Browne, John P.; Bradley, Colin P. (BioMed Central, )

  Background: In the context of rising dementia prevalence, the workload of general practitioners (GPs) in dementia care is set to increase. However, there are many aspects of dementia care that GPs find challenging. Behavioural ...
• Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in a subpopulation of older European clinical trial participants: a cross-sectional study 

  O Riordan, David; Aubert, Carole Elodie; Walsh, Kieran A.; Van Dorland, Anette; Rodondi, Nicolas; Du Puy, Robert S.; Poortvliet, Rosalinde K. E.; Gussekloo, Jacobijn; Sinnott, Carol; Byrne, Stephen; Galvin, Rose; Jukema, J Wouter; Mooijaart, Simon P.; Baumgartner, Christine; McCarthy, Vera J. C.; Walsh, Elaine K.; Collet, Tinh-Hai; Dekkers, Olaf M.; Blum, Manuel R.; Kearney, Patricia M. (BMJ Publishing Group:, 2018)

  Objectives: To estimate and compare the prevalence and type of potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs) among community-dwelling older adults (≥65 years) enrolled to a clinical ...
• Patient reported outcome measures of quality of end-of-life care: a systematic review 

  Kearns, Tara; Cornally, Nicola; Molloy, D. William (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2017)

  End-of-life (EoL) care is increasingly used as a generic term in preference to palliative care or terminal care, particularly with reference to individuals with chronic disease, who are resident in community and long-term ...
• Validation of the 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test and the 4AT test for combined delirium and dementia screening in older Emergency Department attendees 

  O'Sullivan, Dawn; Brady, Noeleen; Manning, Edmund; O'Shea, Emma; O'Grady, Síle; O'Regan, Niamh; Timmons, Suzanne (Oxford University Press, 2017)

  Background screening for cognitive impairment in Emergency Department (ED) requires short, reliable tools. Objective to validate the 4AT and 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test (6-CIT) for ED dementia and delirium screening. ...
• Better palliative care for people with a dementia: summary of interdisciplinary workshop highlighting current gaps and recommendations for future research 

  Fox, Siobhán; Fitzgerald, Carol; Dening, Karen Harrison; Irving, Kate; Kernohan, W. George; Treloar, Adrian; Oliver, David; Guerin, Suzanne; Timmons, Suzanne (Biomed Central Ltd, 2017)

  Background: Dementia is the most common neurological disorder worldwide and is a life-limiting condition, but very often is not recognised as such. People with dementia, and their carers, have been shown to have palliative ...

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