Patients with dementia. Comparative study of patients with dementia admitted to Alzheimer Special Care Units and other nursing home wards in the Lombardy Region: Differences in characteristics and clinical outcomes;Pazienti con demenza: Studio ai confronta tra pazienti con demenza degenti in reparti di Residenze Sanitario-Assistenziali e in «Nuclei Alzheimer» della Regione Lombardia: Differenze ed evoluzione dei principal outcome clinici

Ricerca e Pratica

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 196-215

  Nobili, Alessandro ^a   Piana, Ilaria ^a   Balossi, Laura ^a   Tettamanti, Mauro ^a   Trevisan, Silvia ^a   Lucca, Ugo ^a   Matucci, Marina ^b   Tarantola, Massimo ^b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b Regione Lombardia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer Special Care Unit; Dementia; Health care quality; Outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FALLING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTENSIVE CARE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 33751250808     PISSN: 1120379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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