Prevalence of depression among recently admitted long-term care patients in Norwegian nursing homes: Associations with diagnostic workup and use of antidepressants

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 154-162

  Iden, Kristina Riis ^a   Engedal, Knut ^c   Hjorleifsson, Stefan ^b   Ruths, Sabine ^a,b  

^a health and rehabilitation Uni health Uni Research   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Admission; Antidepressant medications; Depression; Diagnostics; Nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNELL SCALE FOR DEPRESSION IN DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-10; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NORWAY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERY ELDERLY; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NORWAY; NURSING HOMES; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84886005108     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000355427     Document Type: Article

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