Dementia care initiative in primary practice – study protocol of a cluster randomized trial on dementia management in a general practice setting |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum, M?nchen, Germany;(2) German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany;(3) Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany;(4) HealthEcon AG, Basel, Switzerland;(5) AOK Bavaria, N?rnberg, Germany;(6) Eisai GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany;(7) Pfizer Germany GmbH, Berlin, Germany;(8) Health Economics and Outcomes Research, IMS Health GmbH & Co. OHG, N?rnberg, Germany;(9) Competence Center for General Practice and Outpatients' Health Care, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany;(10) Federal Association of the AOK, Berlin, Germany;(11) Institute for Patient Safety, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Background Current guidelines for dementia care recommend the combination of drug therapy with non-pharmaceutical measures like counselling
and social support. However, the scientific evidence concerning non-pharmaceutical interventions for dementia patients and
their informal caregivers remains inconclusive. Targets of modern comprehensive dementia care are to enable patients to live
at home as long and as independent as possible and to reduce the burden of caregivers. The objective of the study is to compare
a complex intervention including caregiver support groups and counselling against usual care in terms of time to nursing home
placement. In this paper the study protocol is described. |
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