2011
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-11-99
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Prescribing patterns in dementia: a multicentre observational study in a German network of CAM physicians

Abstract: BackgroundDementia is a major and increasing health problem worldwide. This study aims to investigate dementia treatment strategies among physicians specialised in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by analysing prescribing patterns and comparing them to current treatment guidelines in Germany.MethodsTwenty-two primary care physicians in Germany participated in this prospective, multicentre observational study. Prescriptions and diagnoses were reported for each consecutive patient. Data were included… Show more

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“…For the systematic review, as the studies are the point of interest, articles about the same study were treated together, as a single one. This explains the discrepancy between the number of articles (25) and studies (22) .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…For the systematic review, as the studies are the point of interest, articles about the same study were treated together, as a single one. This explains the discrepancy between the number of articles (25) and studies (22) .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…These data were thereafter exported to the Quality Documentation Statistics System in Health Care (QuaDoSta) hosted in each practice [20]. After completing each export, participating physicians 35.7%) and 'diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue' (L00-L99, 16%), followed by 'symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified diseases' (R00-R99, 15.2%) and by 'diseases of the nervous system' (G00-G99, 9.7%).…”
Section: Description Of the Participating Physicians And Patientsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…38 German physicians participated in this network by entering patient data on age, gender, diagnosis, and treatments. The resulting data bank has been / is being used to determine which remedies are being prescribed in general [19], which ones are prescribed for a certain diagnosis or group of diagnoses [20,24], for a defined patient group [22,23], and in order to characterize the prescribing pattern of a particular group of remedies [21].…”
Section: Schlüsselwörtermentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, the prescription rates for antidementia medication are rather low in Germany: only about one-quarter of all patients diagnosed with dementia are treated with dementiaspecific drugs (Jeschke et al 2011;van den Bussche et al 2011a), and only 8% receive the appropriate medication based on the guidelines ). There are considerable differences in the prescribing behaviors of GPs and specialists.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%