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Risk, prevention and care in population studies

8,018 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. The role of palliative care in patients with neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2013-04-02 End-of-life care

    Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families affected by life-threatening illness.

  2. The lived experience of family caregivers who provided end-of-life care to persons with advanced dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Palliative & supportive care 2013-03-19 End-of-life care

    Further findings are organized according to the existential life worlds.

  3. Pain relief at the end of life: nurses' experiences regarding end-of-life pain relief in patients with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 2013-02-28 End-of-life care

    Patients with dementia receive suboptimal palliative care, and this patient group is at risk to have pain at the end of life.

  4. Five things physicians and patients should question in hospice and palliative medicine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2013-02-22 End-of-life care

    Overuse or misuse of tests and treatments exposes patients to potential harm.

  5. Hospitalization and cognitive decline: Can the nature of the relationship be deciphered?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2013-02-06 Clinical safety

    There is evidence to support an association between hospitalization and development of cognitive decline.

  6. Mediterranean diet, healthy eating index 2005, and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Puerto Rican adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2013-02-01 Prevention trials

    Adherence to a Mediterranean diet has recently been shown to protect against cognitive decline and dementia.

  7. Educating families about end-of-life care in advanced dementia: acceptability of a Canadian family booklet to nurses from Canada, France, and Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. International journal of palliative nursing 2013-02-01 End-of-life care

    The booklet may help nurses educate families about end-of-life issues in dementia palliative care, but local adaptation of the booklet content and physician engagement are necessary.

  8. Dementia Knowledge Assessment Tool Version Two: development of a tool to inform preparation for care planning and delivery in families and care staff

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2013-01-16 End-of-life care

    Care for the person with dementia requires understanding of the person's perspective and preferences, integrated with knowledge of dementia's trajectory and appropriate care.

  9. Palliative care provision in the emergency department: barriers reported by emergency physicians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2013-01-10 End-of-life care

    We identify two main ED physician-perceived barriers to PC provision: lack of access to medical records and lack of 24/7 availability of PC team.

  10. Automated classification of primary progressive aphasia subtypes from narrative speech transcripts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2012-12-21 Digital health tools

    In the early stages of neurodegenerative disorders, individuals may exhibit a decline in language abilities that is difficult to quantify with standardized tests.

    Why it matters

    This study describes a computational method that classified connected speech from patients with semantic dementia and progressive nonfluent aphasia with accuracy above baseline. It is a diagnostic and classification tool, not a treatment, cure, or prevention for Alzheimer's disease.

  11. Potential benefits of adherence to the Mediterranean diet on cognitive health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2012-12-11 Prevention trials

    The purpose of this review was to update available knowledge on the relationship between adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MeDi) and cognitive decline, risk of dementia or Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and to analyse the reasons for some inconsistent results across studies.

  12. Selecting the best instruments to measure quality of end-of-life care and quality of dying in long term care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2012-11-17 End-of-life care

    We recommend the EOLD-SWC to measure QOC, and the EOLD-CAD and MSSE to measure QOD in populations with dementia and in mixed long term care populations of nursing home or residential care home/assisted living residents, because they performed best in both countries.

  13. The neural basis of semantic cognition: converging evidence from neuropsychology, neuroimaging and TMS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2012-11-13 Vascular contributions

    Recent studies suggest that a complex, distributed neural network underpins semantic cognition.

  14. Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of a family booklet on comfort care in dementia: sensitive topics revised before implementation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of medical ethics 2012-11-10 End-of-life care

    Providing artificial feeding and fluids and discussing euthanasia may be particularly sensitive topics, and guidance on these subjects needs careful consideration of ethical aspects and possible adaptations to local standards and practice.

  15. Gait and cognition: a complementary approach to understanding brain function and the risk of falling

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012-10-30 Clinical safety

    Until recently, clinicians and researchers have performed gait assessments and cognitive assessments separately when evaluating older adults, but increasing evidence from clinical practice, epidemiological studies, and clinical trials shows that gait and cognition are interrelated in older adults.

  16. The experience of providing end-of-life care to a relative with advanced dementia: an integrative literature review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Palliative & supportive care 2012-10-23 End-of-life care

    The number of people with dementia is growing at an alarming rate.

  17. Assessment and management of pain, with particular emphasis on central neuropathic pain, in moderate to severe dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Drugs & aging 2012-09-01 End-of-life care

    Concerning pain assessment, the findings of this review suggest that self-report pain rating scales, in particular the Verbal Rating Scale, the Horizontal Visual Analogue Scale and the Faces Pain Scale can be administered to patients in a more advanced stage of dementia.

  18. Hippocampal sclerosis--origins and imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Epilepsia 2012-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    If adequate MRI shows no structural correlate in patients with MTLE, functional imaging studies are valuable, especially if they are in agreement with ictal electroencephalography (EEG) findings.

  19. Palliative care services for people with dementia: a synthesis of the literature reporting the views and experiences of professionals and family carers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2012-08-10 End-of-life care

    The experience of being a carer of a person with dementia at the end of life is expressed in these 12 accounts.

  20. At the extreme end of the psychoneuroimmunological spectrum: delirium as a maladaptive sickness behaviour response

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2012-08-03 Clinical safety

    Delirium is a common and severe neuropsychiatric syndrome characterised by acute deterioration and fluctuations in mental status.

  21. Postural stability and history of falls in cognitively able older adults: the Canton Ticino study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Gait & posture 2012-07-24 Clinical safety

    Falls are common events in the elderly and represent the main risk factor for fractures and other injuries.

  22. Dietary patterns: a novel approach to examine the link between nutrition and cognitive function in older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Nutrition research reviews 2012-07-04 Prevention trials

    Cognitive decline may lead to dementia whose most frequent cause is Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Atypical antipsychotics are associated with incident diabetes in older adults without schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Evidence-Based Mental Health 2012-06-22 Health systems and care delivery

    Atypical antipsychotics are associated with incident diabetes in older adults without schizophrenia or bipolar disorder QUESTION Question: Is atypical antipsychotic use associated with incident diabetes or hyperlipidaemia in older people without schizophrenia or bipolar disorder?

    Why it matters

    This study found that atypical antipsychotic use was associated with incident diabetes in older adults without schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. It does not address treating, curing, or preventing Alzheimer's disease.

  24. The problems of vitamin d insufficiency in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Aging and disease 2012-06-06 Clinical safety

    This report reviews evidence on disorders related to inadequate vitamin D repletion in older people.

  25. Stress abnormalities in individuals at risk for psychosis: a review of studies in subjects with familial risk or with "at risk" mental state

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012-06-02 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Increased sensitivity to stress is known to play an important role in the transition to first episode psychosis (FEP).

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10 of the 7,967 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.

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