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GuidelineAge and ageing2024

Guideline summary: assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network SIGN Guideline 168].

Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Roy L Soiza, Terence J Quinn, SIGN 168 guideline development group

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Guideline in Age and ageing, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Putting People at the Centre of Guidelines.Clinical and public health guidelines · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jennifer Kirsty BurtonAcademic Geriatric Medicine, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G31 2ER, UK.
Roy L SoizaAgeing Clinical and Experimental Research Group, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK.
Terence J QuinnAcademic Geriatric Medicine, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G31 2ER, UK.
SIGN 168 guideline development group

Funding

Joint NHS Education for Scotland/Chief Scientist Office (NES/CSO)Medical Research Council MR/T033371/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have recently published their guideline SIGN168 on 'Assessment, Diagnosis, Care, and Support for People with Dementia and their Carers'. The guideline makes evidence-based recommendations for best practice in the assessment, care and support of adults living with dementia. Topics featured in this guideline are limited to those prioritised by stakeholders, especially people with lived and living experience, and those not well covered under pre-existing guidance. We summarise the guideline recommendations related to identification and diagnosis of dementia, investigative procedures, postdiagnostic support living with dementia, including non-pharmacological approaches for distressed behaviours, using technology to support people with dementia, grief and dementia and changing needs of people with dementia. The guideline content is summarised as officially published, with additional commentary in the final section.

Indexed as

CaregiversDementiaHumansScotlandSocial SupportAlzheimer’sdementiaguidelineolder people

Identifiers

PMID38970550
PMCPMC11227111

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