{"id":1138,"date":"2016-07-25T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2016-06-27T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:41:46","slug":"shortcuts-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2016\/07\/25\/shortcuts-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2016 Mar 27. doi: 10.1002\/gps.4463. [Epub ahead of print]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27019375\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the acute general medical hospital: a longitudinal cohort study.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>White N, Leurent B, Lord K, et al<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A longitudinal cohort study of 230 patients with dementia admitted to two UK hospitals assessed behavioural and psychological symptoms and documentation of non-pharmacological and pharmacological management. 75% of patients with dementia had behavioural and psychological symptoms (especially aggression and activity disturbance). Non-pharmacological management was used in 55% of patients, 36% had psychosocial interventions with little evidence of effectiveness monitoring. Patients were prescribed antipsychotics (12%), benzodiazepines (12%), antidepressants (16%), or sedatives (3%). Patients prescribed antipsychotics were nearly 6 times more likely to die, compared to those who were not.<\/p>\n<p>Shortcuts are compiled by Jason Boland<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2016 Mar 27. doi: 10.1002\/gps.4463. [Epub ahead of print] The management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the acute general medical hospital: a longitudinal cohort study. White N, Leurent B, Lord K, et al A longitudinal cohort study of 230 patients with dementia admitted to two UK hospitals assessed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2016\/07\/25\/shortcuts-77\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}