Assessing neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with dementia: Reliability and Reliable ChangeIndex of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory and the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-134

  Zuidema, Sytse U ^a   Buursema, Anja L ^b   Gerritsen, Maarten G J M ^b   Oosterwal, Karen C ^c   Smits, Mieke M M ^d   Koopmans, Raymond T C M ^a   De Jonghe, Jos F M ^e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Nursing Home Gelders Hof ^*

^c Medical Centre Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^d Vitalis WoonZorg Groep   (Netherlands)

^e Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

assessment; neuropsychiatric symptoms; nursing home; reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; COHEN MANSFIELD AGITATION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROPHSYCHIATRIC INVENTORY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RELIABLE CHANGE INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 78651464275     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.2499     Document Type: Article

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