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Q Does educating primary care workers in investigating and managing dementia in the elderly increase detection rates and adherence to diagnosis and management guidelines?
METHODS
Design:
Cluster randomised controlled trial (by general practice).
Allocation:
Concealed.
Blinding:
Unblinded (once baseline data were collected).
Follow up period:
Nine months.
Setting:
Thirty six UK general practices; 1999 to 2002.
Patients:
450 people aged 75 and over registered at 36 general practices who were diagnosed with dementia or probable dementia.
Intervention:
Three educational interventions for primary care workers: tutorial on a CD-ROM (8 practices); decision support software built into the electronic medical records …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Murna Downs, Bradford Dementia Group, Division of Dementia Studies, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford BD5 0BB, UK; m.downs{at}bradford.ac.uk
Sources of funding: Alzheimer’s Society (Alexander and Christina Dykes Project Grant).
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