Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening
Zygouris, S.; Gkioka, M.; Moraitou, D.; Teichmann, B.; Tsiatsos, T.; Papagianopoulos, S.; Tsolaki, M. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2019 · Heft 10 · S. 258 bis 263
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Zusammenfassung
Despite recent medical advances, dementia remains underdiagnosed in older adults admitted to general hospitals. High workload of the hospital staff in combination with lack of appropriate screening tools further exacerbate this issue. Computerized cognitive testing (CCT) has been proposed as a solution as it can be administered by nonspecialists such as nurses while featuring automatic scoring and interpretation of results. At the same time, it has not been integrated in healthcare systems and the attitudes of healthcare personnel as well as the barriers to its implementation have not been studied.BackgroundDeme…
