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- 25Needs assessment
- 20Diagnosis
- 17Canada, Alberta, Edmonton
- 4Alzheimer's disease
- 4Family caregivers
- 9Edmonton Social Planning Council
- 9Forbes, D.
- 3Forbes, D. A.
- 3Gibson, M.
- 3Hopper, Tammy
- 3Innes, Anthea
- 30Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 30Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 25Nursing, Faculty of
- 22Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)
- 20Nursing, Faculty of/Chronicity
- 6Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)/Children, Youth and Family (Edmonton Social Planning Council)
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2012
Mendelsohn, M., Lischka, A.R., Overend, T., Forbes, D.
Early detection of dementia is essential to guide front-line health care practitioners in further clinical evaluations and treatments. There is a paucity of literature assessing the effectiveness of screening tools to predict the development of dementia, thus we conducted a systematic review to...
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Fall 2013
Purpose: evaluate 1) reliability and accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) for assessing adenoid size compared to nasoendoscopy (NE), 2) Influence of clinical experience on CBCT diagnosis. Methods: Four blinded evaluators reviewed randomized CBCT images. Adenoid size was graded on a...
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Affirming the value of the resident assessment instrument: Minimum data set version 2.0 for nursing home decision-making and quality improvement
Download2015
Wagg, Adrian S., Drummond, Lindsay S., Jones, C. Allyson, Slaughter, Susan E.
Background: We examined the agreement over time of the physical functioning domains of the Resident Assessment Instrument: Minimum Data Set Version 2.0 (RAI-MDS) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) in nursing home residents with dementia. Methods: We completed a secondary analysis of...
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Fall 2014
The present research examined social motivation in dementia within the theoretical framework of socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; Carstensen, 2006). SST is a lifespan theory of social motivation that argues goal selection and pursuit are inextricably related to perceived time remaining in...
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Fall 2020
Antihypertensives are prevalent in long-term care (LTC) populations, however the ratio of benefit to harm of antihypertensive treatment is unclear. There has not yet been a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of deprescribing all classes of antihypertensive medication in the frail...
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Fall 2014
While there has been much literature in the area of system monitoring and diagnosis, most of these techniques have a relatively small scope in terms of the faults and performance issues that they are built to detect. When implementing several monitors simultaneously on a single process, a single...
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Spring 2014
Clients with cybersex addiction (CSA) are a growing challenge for mental health practitioners. Therapists must be more skilled and adept at identifying when the core issue is cybersex addiction in spite of client denial and potentially confounding symptoms. The main purpose of this exploratory...