Trial reportAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2025
Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of extended nursing roles in dementia care: Results of the cluster-randomized trial InDePendent.
Trial report in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04741932 (Interprofessional Dementia Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Interprofessional Dementia Care: Redistribution of Tasks Between Physicians and Qualified Nurses in Primary Care
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- Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of extended nursing roles in dementia care: Results of the cluster-randomized trial InDePendent.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Trial
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introductionExtended nursing roles in dementia can improve treatment, care, and patient and caregiver outcomes. We tested the efficacy and cost-effectiveness in people living with dementia (PlwD) and caregivers.
methodsWe analyzed data from 417 PlwD within the multicenter, cluster-randomized InDePendent trial six months after baseline. Specifically, qualified nurses carried out advanced dementia care management individually tailored to each patient's and caregiver's needs. Outcomes included unmet needs (CANE), quality of life (QoL-AD, EQ-5D), caregiver burden (Zarit), and cost-effectiveness (FIMA, RUD).
resultsPlwD receiving the intervention had 74% lower unmet needs (0.26, CI DISCUSSION: The results provide evidence for the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of extended nursing roles in dementia care, demonstrating that extended nursing roles reduce unmet needs and improve quality of life.
trial registrationThis trial was prospectively registered on ClinicalTrials.gov under the identifier NCT04741932 on February 2, 2021. HIGHLIGHTS: The InDePendent intervention significantly reduced the number of unmet needs in PlwD and their caregiver according to CANE. Extended nursing roles can improve PlwD's health-related Quality of Life. Advanced dementia care management were likely to be cost-effective after six months.
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