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A cross-cultural study of physician treatment decisions for demented nursing home patients who develop pneumonia

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A favorable course of palliative sedation: searching for indicators using caregivers' perspectives

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A review of quality of life instruments used in dementia

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A revised Index for Social Engagement for long-term care

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

A validated risk score to estimate mortality risk in patients with dementia and pneumonia: barriers to clinical impact

scientific article published on 26 July 2010

Abbreviated form of the Informant Questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Active Voluntary Euthanasia or Physician‐Assisted Suicide?

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Dutch nursing homes: patients' characteristics

scientific article published in September 1995

Antibiotic treatment and survival of nursing home patients with lower respiratory tract infection: a cross-national analysis.

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Attitudes of Dutch general practitioners and nursing home physicians to active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

scientific article published in November 1995

Attitudes of physicians, nurses and relatives towards end-of-life decisions concerning nursing home patients with dementia

scientific article published on 21 June 2005

Behavioral and mood effects of snoezelen integrated into 24-hour dementia care.

scientific article published in January 2005

Benefit of an integrative psychotherapeutic nursing home program to reduce multiple psychiatric symptoms of psychogeriatric patients and caregiver burden after six months of follow-up: a re-analysis of a randomized controlled trial

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Benefits and pitfalls of pooling datasets from comparable observational studies: combining US and Dutch nursing home studies.

scientific article published in September 2008

Cardiovascular risk factors in cognitively impaired nursing home patients: a relationship with pain?

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Caregivers' understanding of dementia predicts patients' comfort at death: a prospective observational study

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Chronic pain in dementia and in disorders with a high risk for congnitive impairment

scientific article published in July 2005

Chronische pijn bij dementie en bij aandoeningen met een verhoogd risico op cognitieve achteruitgang

Communication, advice exchange and job satisfaction of nursing staff: a social network analyses of 35 long-term care units

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Comorbid depression in dementia on psychogeriatric nursing home wards: which symptoms are prominent?

scientific article published in July 2009

Comorbidity and 1-Year Mortality Risks in Nursing Home Residents

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Construction and validation of a patient- and user-friendly nursing home version of the Geriatric Depression Scale.

scientific article published in September 2007

De GDS-8: een korte, cliënt- en gebruikersvriendelijke versie van de Geriatrische Depressie Schaal voor verpleeghuizen

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Decisions to treat or not to treat pneumonia in demented psychogeriatric nursing home patients: development of a guideline.

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Decisions to treat or not to treat pneumonia in demented psychogeriatric nursing home patients: evaluation of a guideline

scientific article published in July 2001

Defining severe dementia with the Minimum Data Set.

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Defining spirituality at the end of life

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Degree of discomfort following the decision to discontinue artificial nutrition and hydration in institutionalised psychogeriatric patients with severe dementia who no longer or scarcely eat or drink

scientific article published in February 2006

Dementia severity, decline and improvement after a lower respiratory tract infection

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Dementia, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, and Long-Term Mortality

scientific article published on 14 June 2007

Depressie en pijn: een ongelukkig huwelijk

Depressive symptoms in newly admitted nursing home residents

scientific article published on December 2006

Diagnostic accuracy of the original 30-item and shortened versions of the Geriatric Depression Scale in nursing home patients

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Discomfort in dementia patients dying from pneumonia and its relief by antibiotics

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Discomfort in nursing home patients with severe dementia in whom artificial nutrition and hydration is forgone

scientific article published in August 2005

Do Findings of High Mortality From Pneumonia in the Elderly Make It the Old Man's Friend?

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Down and drowsy? Do apathetic nursing home residents experience low quality of life?

scientific article published in March 2005

Economic evaluation alongside a single RCT of an integrative psychotherapeutic nursing home programme.

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Effects of snoezelen, integrated in 24h dementia care, on nurse–patient communication during morning care

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Effects of the Resident Assessment Instrument on the care process and health outcomes in nursing homes. A review of the literature

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Effects of the implementation of the Resident Assessment Instrument on gaps between perceived needs and nursing care supply for nursing home residents in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

End-of-life decision making in nursing home residents with dementia and pneumonia: Dutch physicians' intentions regarding hastening death

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Ervaringen van familie met de besluitvorming rond kunstmatige toediening van vocht en voedsel (ktvv) bij mensen met dementie in het verpleeghuis

scientific article published in April 2006

Ethical aspects of medical decision-making in demented patients: a report from the Netherlands.

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Evaluatie van units voor kortdurende terminale zorg bij verpleeghuizen

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Family perceptions of wishes of dementia patients regarding end-of-life care

scientific article published in February 2011

Feeding nursing home patients with severe dementia: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Finding a useful conceptual basis for enhancing the quality of life of nursing home residents

scientific article published on April 2004

Forgoing artificial nutrition and hydration in nursing home patients with dementia: patients, decision making, and participants.

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Hearing impairment in nursing home patients not easily screened when relying on nurses' and patients' opinions

scientific article published in May 1993

Het levenseinde in Nederlandse verpleeghuizen

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Improved end-of-life care for patients with dementia: greater family satisfaction and possibly greater end-of-life comfort

scientific article published in January 2013

Improvements in the quality of co-ordination of nursing care following implementation of the Resident Assessment Instrument in Dutch nursing homes

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Incidence and outcome of depressive symptoms in nursing home patients in the Netherlands

scientific article published on December 2006

Incidentie en beloop van depressieve symptomen bij verpleeghuispatiënten

Integrative Psychotherapeutic Nursing Home Program to Reduce Multiple Psychiatric Symptoms of Cognitively Impaired Patients and Caregiver Burden: Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Introducing a nursing guideline on depression in dementia: A multiple case study on influencing factors

scientific article published on March 5, 2011

Life-terminating actions by family practitioners and nursing home physicians without the patient's request

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Lower Respiratory Infections in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Tale of Two Countries

scientific article published on April 1, 2003

Measurement of overall quality of life in nursing homes through self-report: the role of cognitive impairment

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Measuring discomfort in patients with dementia. Validity of a Dutch version of the Discomfort Scale--dementia of Alzheimer type (DS-DAT)

scientific article published in December 2002

Measuring the quality of dying and quality of care when dying in long-term care settings: a qualitative content analysis of available instruments.

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Mortality following nursing home-acquired lower respiratory infection: LRI severity, antibiotic treatment, and water intake

scientific article published on 22 April 2011

Multidisciplinair zorgmodel in verzorgingshuizen

Negative symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: a confirmatory factor analysis

scientific article published in August 2003

Nursing assistants' behaviour during morning care: effects of the implementation of snoezelen, integrated in 24-hour dementia care

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Pain in European long-term care facilities: cross-national study in Finland, Italy and The Netherlands.

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Pain in the nursing home: assessment and treatment on different types of care wards

scientific article published on 5 July 2007

Palliative Sedation: Reliability and Validity of Sedation Scales

Palliative care units in The Netherlands: changes in patients' functional status and symptoms

scientific article published in September 2004

Physicians' and nurses' experiences with continuous palliative sedation in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Pneumonia and Mortality in Elderly Patients: Response to a Letter by Dr Rozzini et al

scholarly article by Jenny T. van der Steen et al published January 2008 in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Pneumonia: the demented patient's best friend? Discomfort after starting or withholding antibiotic treatment

scientific article published in October 2002

Predicted Survival vs. Actual Survival in Terminally Ill Noncancer Patients in Dutch Nursing Homes

article published in 2006

Prediction of 6-month Mortality in Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia: Validity of a Risk Score

scientific article published on 13 August 2007

Predictors of mortality for lower respiratory infections in nursing home residents with dementia were validated transnationally

scientific article published on 23 May 2006

Predictors of survival in nursing home patients with severe dementia in whom artificial nutrition and hydration are [corrected] forgone

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Prevalence and diagnosis of depression in frail nursing home patients; a pilot study

scientific article published in October 1999

Prevalence and risk indicators of depression in elderly nursing home patients: the AGED study

scientific article published in December 2004

Prognosis is important in decisionmaking in Dutch nursing home patients with dementia and pneumonia

scientific article published in September 2009

Prognostic Factors for a Favourable Long-Term Outcome from an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Nursing Home Programme

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Psychometric properties of instruments to measure the quality of end-of-life care and dying for long-term care residents with dementia.

scientific article published on 5 August 2011

QUALIDEM: development and evaluation of a dementia specific quality of life instrument--validation

scientific article published in May 2007

QUALIDEM: development and evaluation of a dementia specific quality of life instrument. Scalability, reliability and internal structure

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Quality of life change and response shift in patients admitted to palliative care units: a pilot study

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Recent developments in pain in dementia

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Relationship between internal risk factors for development of decubitus ulcers and the blood flow response following pressure load.

scientific article published on June 2001

Retrospective and prospective data collection compared in the Dutch End Of Life in Dementia (DEOLD) study

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Selecting the best instruments to measure quality of end-of-life care and quality of dying in long term care

scientific article published on 17 November 2012

Selection bias in family reports on end of life with dementia in nursing homes

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Severe Dementia and Adverse Outcomes of Nursing Home-Acquired Pneumonia: Evidence for Mediation by Functional and Pathophysiological Decline

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Short version of the Dutch Behavioral Rating Scale for Psychogeriatric Inpatients (GIP-28)

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

Social engagement and depressive symptoms of elderly residents with dementia: a cross-sectional study of 37 long-term care units

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

Social well-being and its measurement in the nursing home, the SWON-scale

scientific article published on 16 March 2010

Spirituality at the end of life: conceptualization of measurable aspects-a systematic review

scientific article published on 25 May 2011

Starting artificial nutrition and hydration in patients with dementia in The Netherlands: frequencies, patient characteristics and decision-making process

scientific article published in February 2007

Symptoms, signs, problems, and diseases of terminally ill nursing home patients: a nationwide observational study in the Netherlands

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The Dutch pressure sore assessment score or the Norton scale for identifying at-risk nursing home patients?

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

The Effect of Depression on Social Engagement in Newly Admitted Dutch Nursing Home Residents

The MDS Challenging Behavior Profile for long-term care.

scientific article published in January 2008

The concept of quality of life in dementia in the different stages of the disease.

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The cost-effectiveness of a new disease management model for frail elderly living in homes for the elderly, design of a cluster randomized controlled clinical trial

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The effect of integrated emotion-oriented care versus usual care on elderly persons with dementia in the nursing home and on nursing assistants: a randomized clinical trial

scientific article published in April 2005

The effects of a nursing guideline on depression in psychogeriatric nursing home residents with dementia

scientific article published on November 11, 2010

The effects of the implementation of snoezelen on the quality of working life in psychogeriatric care

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

The implementation of snoezelen in psychogeriatric care: an evaluation through the eyes of caregivers

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

The incidence of depression and its risk factors in Dutch nursing homes and residential care homes

scientific article published in November 2012

The introduction of a nursing guideline on depression at psychogeriatric nursing home wards: effects on certified nurse assistants

scientific article published on 8 July 2010

The last days of life of nursing home patients with and without dementia assessed with the Palliative care Outcome Scale

scholarly article by Hella E Brandt et al published June 2005 in Palliative Medicine

The last two days of life of nursing home patients – a nationwide study on causes of death and burdensome symptoms in the Netherlands

article by Hella E Brandt et al published July 2006 in Palliative Medicine

The relation between quality of co-ordination of nursing care and quality of life in Dutch nursing homes

scientific article published in December 2000

The relationship between pressure ulcers and skin blood flow response after a local cold provocation

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

The role of the social network in active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

The role of the specialist physician in nursing homes: the Netherlands' experience

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The specialist training program for nursing home physicians: a new professional challenge

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

The ties that bind? Social networks of nursing staff and staff's behaviour towards residents with dementia

scholarly article by Adriana P.A. van Beek et al published July 2013 in Social Networks

Treatment of nursing home residents with dementia and lower respiratory tract infection in the United States and The Netherlands: an ocean apart

scientific article published in May 2004

Treatment of pneumonia in nursing home residents with severe dementia: for residents with poor prognosis, a more reserved approach in The Netherlands and more active treatment in the United States

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Treatment strategy and risk of functional decline and mortality after nursing-home acquired lower respiratory tract infection: two prospective studies in residents with dementia

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Trends in treatment of pneumonia among Dutch nursing home patients with dementia

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Urinary incontinence in disabled elderly women: a randomized clinical trial on the effect of training mobility and toileting skills to achieve independent toileting

scientific article published on 9 March 2007

Variability between nursing homes in prevalence of antipsychotic use in patients with dementia.

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Dutch nursing homes: are the requirements for prudent practice properly met?

scientific article published in June 1994

Voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Dutch nursing homes: requests and administration

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

What is the methodological rigour of palliative care research in long-term care facilities in Europe? A systematic review

scientific article published on 22 June 2011

When should physicians forgo curative treatment of pneumonia in patients with dementia? Using a guideline for decision-making.

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Withholding antibiotic treatment in pneumonia patients with dementia: a quantitative observational study

scientific article published in August 2002

Withholding or starting antibiotic treatment in patients with dementia and pneumonia: prediction of mortality with physicians' judgment of illness severity and with specific prognostic models.

scientific article published in March 2005

Withholding or withdrawing artificial administration of food and fluids in nursing-home patients

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Withholding the artificial administration of fluids and food from elderly patients with dementia: ethnographic study

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[Are psychopharmaceutical agents prescribed too often in nursing homes?]

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

[Depression among older nursing home patients. A review]

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

[Dying with dementia: what do we know about it?]

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

[Experience of family members with the decision concerning artificial nutrition and hydration in people with dementia in nursing homes]

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

[Extension or shortening of life in severely demented patients; qualifications from nursing home medicine]

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

[Facilitators and barriers in implementing units for short term terminal care in nursing homes]

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

[Foregoing artificial feeding and hydration for nursing home patients in the last phase of life]

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

[Guideline 'Diagnosis and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia' from the Dutch Thoracic Society]

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

[Hospital admission of nursing home patients considered but not carried out: role of the nursing home physician and the involved parties and various differences with realized hospital admissions]

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

[Hospital admission of nursing home patients: a difficult decision?]

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

[Hospital admission of nursing home patients: patient characteristics and purpose of admission]

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

[Palliative care and the health care for the elderly]

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[Palliative sedation largely in accordance with Dutch national guideline]

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

[Prevalence of ulcers in Dutch nursing homes]

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

[Professional education as nursing home physician. II. Starting points and content]

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

[Scientific research in nursing home medicine: a prerequisite for professionalization]

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

[Three new observational scales for use in Dutch nursing homes: scales from the Resident Assessment Instrument for Activities of Daily Living, cognition and depression]

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

[To the hospital or not? A dilemma in nursing home medicine]

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

[Whether or not to treat pneumonia curatively in (demented) psychogeriatric patients: evaluation of a guideline for nursing home physicians]

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

[Who decides on hospital admission of nursing home patients?]

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

[Wrong beds and wrong care]

scientific article published on 01 April 1996