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Screening of Dementia in Portuguese Primary Care: Methodology, Assessment Tools...
Teixeira, L; dos Santos, PM; Alves, S; Azevedo, MJ; Duarte, MG; Leuschner, A; Paúl, CThe objectives of this article are as follows: (1) to describe the assessment protocol used to outline people with probable dementia in Primary Health Care; (2) to show the methodological design and procedure to obtain a representative sample of patients with probable dementia; and (3) to report the main characteristics of the sample collected in the context of the study “Characteristics and needs of people wit...
Use of antipsychotic drugs. A multicentric study of inpatients with acute psych...
Xavier, Miguel; Barahona, B; Batalim, P; Matos, Cabeças J; Domingos, E; Freitas, F; Gamito, A; Gil, N; Laureano, C; Leuschner, A; Lopes, J; Luís, AWith the objective of determining the pattern and decision making process in using antipsychotic drugs in patients admitted to hospital for acute psychotic disorder we have made a retrospective analysis in 244 in-patients in 7 hospitals for mental disorders. We have selected two groups, IM and PO, that in the first three days of internment have received either intravenous antipsychotic medication or oral medica...