Predicting patients with dementia most at risk of needing psychiatric inpatient or enhanced community care using routinely collected clinical data: retrospective multi-site cohort study.
Publication: BJPsych
London SR, Chen S, Sidhom E, Lewis JR, Wolverson E, Cardinal RN, Roalf D, Mueller C, Underwood BR
13 May 2024
Summary
People diagnosed with dementia are often diagnosed in memory clinics and then discharged back to their GP. Some later need intensive mental health support (e.g. crisis teams, or inpatient admission) but others do not. This study shows that it’s possible to predict who will and who won’t, with useful accuracy, based on information collected routinely at the time of initial diagnosis.