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ReviewJournal of family medicine and primary care2019

The application of palliative care in dementia.

Masoumeh Pandpazir, Mozhdeh Tajari

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Review in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Masoumeh PandpazirDepartment of Medical Librarianship and Information, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Mozhdeh TajariDepartment of Critical Care Nursing, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND

objectivePalliative care can be of great help to people with dementia during their old ages. The aim of this study was to assess the use of palliative care in patients with dementia.

methodsSearch was conducted in PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases. A step-by-step approach was used to identify relevant studies, and related studies of were demarcated and other studies were excluded. This study has used empirical studies, review studies, and guidelines for health organizations in different countries.

resultsA total of 65 sources were used, of which 24 were completely related to the subject of the study. In related studies, the use of various ways and means of palliative care to improve quality of life, reduce pain, and prevent falling in people with dementia is discussed. DISCUSSION AND

conclusionPalliative care can help people with dementia to improve their quality of life; however, more research is needed on the application and proper management of palliative care in patients with dementia.

Indexed as

Dementiadisease managementpain reliefpalliative care

Identifiers

PMID30984636
PMCPMC6436302
OpenAlexW2917771691

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