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Courtenay, Ken; Jokinen, Nancy S.; Strydom, Andre – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
Authors conducted a systematic review of the available Dutch, English, and German language literature for the period 1997-2008 on the current knowledge on social-psychological and pharmacological caregiving with respect to older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) affected by dementia. Authors note that caregiving occurs on a personal level…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Dementia, Caregivers, Older Adults
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de Kuijper, G.; Hoekstra, P.; Visser, F.; Scholte, F. A.; Penning, C.; Evenhuis, H. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: We investigated antipsychotic drug prescription practice of Dutch ID physicians, studying prevalence of antipsychotic drug use, reasons for prescription and the relationship between these reasons and patient characteristics. Methods: A cross-sectional study of medical and pharmaceutical records in a population living in residential…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Incidence, Mental Retardation, Physicians
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Morsink, Maarten C.; Dukers, Danny F. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2009
Animal models have been widely used for studying the physiology and pharmacology of psychiatric and neurological diseases. The concepts of face, construct, and predictive validity are used as indicators to estimate the extent to which the animal model mimics the disease. Currently, we used these three concepts to design a theoretical assignment to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Animals, Undergraduate Students, Research Design
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van den Bemt, P. M. L. A.; Robertz, R.; de Jong, A. L.; van Roon, E. N.; Leufkens, H. G. M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: Medication errors can result in harm, unless barriers to prevent them are present. Drug administration errors are less likely to be prevented, because they occur in the last stage of the drug distribution process. This is especially the case in non-alert patients, as patients often form the final barrier to prevention of errors.…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Patients, Mental Retardation