Dementia diagnosis: A pilot randomised controlled trial of education and IT audit to assess change in GP dementia documentation

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 141-149

  Millard, Fiona B ^a   Thistlethwaite, Jill ^b   Spagnolo, Chris ^c   Kennedy, R Lee ^a   Baune, Bernhard T ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c Mackay Division of General Practice   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit; Data extraction; Dementia; Dementia diagnosis; Education; Electronic medical records; General practitioner

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149357499     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/py08046     Document Type: Article

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