Predictors of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients: Influence of gender and dementia severity

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1079-1086

  Zuidema, Sytse U ^a   De Jonghe, Jos F M ^b   Verhey, Frans R J ^c   Koopmans, Raymond T C M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dementia; Neuropsychiatric symptoms; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; HYPNOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NOOTROPIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

AGE; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANXIETY; APATHY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; IRRITABILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM;

AGGRESSION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELUSIONS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NURSING HOMES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 70350710335     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.2225     Document Type: Article

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