Effectiveness of a clinical pathway for the diagnosis and treatment of dementia and for the education of families

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 892-897

  Kazui, Hiroaki ^a,b   Hashimoto, Mamoru ^b   Nakano, Yoko ^b   Matsumoto, Keiji ^b   Yamamura, Shuhei ^a,b   Nagaoka, Kentaro ^b,c   Mori, Etsuro ^b,d   Endo, Hidetoshi ^e   Tokunaga, Hiromasa ^a   Ikejiri, Yoshitaka ^a   Takeda, Masatoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hyogo Brain and Heart Center   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e CHUBU NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Care; Caregiver education; Clinical pathway; Dementia; Diagnosis; Efficacy; Hospital costs; Length of hospital stay; Treatment

Indexed keywords

NOOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WARD; WORKLOAD;

AGED; CAREGIVERS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544240985     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1173     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Dykes PC. 1998. Psychiatric Clinical Pathways-an Interdisciplinary Approach. Aspen Publishers: Gaithersburg.
2. Fiel S. 2001. Guidelines and critical pathways for severe hospital-acquired pneumonia. Chest 119(Suppl 2): 412S-418S.
3. Inoue M, Moriwaki Y, Okawa T, et al. 1999. Effect of family education on caregiver burden in dementia patients. KANGO-KENKYU; Jap J Nurs 32: 227-234 [in Japanese].
4. Kim S, Losina E, Solomon DH, Wright J, Katz JN. 2003. Effectiveness of clinical pathways for total knee and total hip arthroplasty: literature review. J Arthroplasty 18: 69-74.
5. Kiyama T, Tajiri T, Yoshiyuki T, et al. 2003. An economic evaluation on the clinical pathway for gastrectomy. Nippon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi 100: 555-561 [in Japanese].
6. Lanska DJ. 1998. The role of clinical pathways in reducing the economic burden of stroke. Pharmacoeconom 14: 151-158.
7. Mace NL, Rabins PV. 1999. The 36-Hour Day. A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illness, and Memory Loss in Later Life, 3rd edn. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London.
8. Stephen AE, Berger DL. 2003. Shortened length of stay and hospital cost reduction with implementation of an accelerated clinical care pathway after elective colon resection. Surgery 133: 277-282.
9. Pearson SD, Goulart-Fisher D, Lee TH. 1995. Critical pathways as a strategy for improving care: problems and potential. Ann Intern Med 123: 941-948.
10. Yamauchi T. 1999. Critical paths: what can be learned about them, what they promise to our health care, and how they must be implemented. J Oita nurs Health Sci 1: 11-19 [in Japanese].