Pain medication and global cognitive functioning in dementia patients with painful conditions

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 377-384

  Plooij, Bart ^a   Van Der Spek, Klaas ^a   Scherder, Erik J A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimers disease; Dementia; Elderly; Pain; Prescribing

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; IBUPROFEN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLORED ANALOG SCALE; COLORED ANALOG SCALE FOR ASSESSMENT OF PAIN AFFECT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACES PAIN SCALE; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALGESICS; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 84860555783     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11630850-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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