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September 15, 2008
Alzheimer's disease and dementia - Annual Evidence Update 15 September 2008
Alzheimer's disease and dementia (Later Life Specialist Library)
http://www.library.nhs.uk/laterlife
The Later Life Specialist Library’s Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update aims to provide healthcare professionals with a clear path to the most important recent evidence surrounding the five major types of dementias: Alzheimer’s; Vascular dementia; Dementia with lewy bodies; Frontotemportal dementia; and mixed dementias.
The Dementia AEU provides bibliographies and clinical commentary on secondary research (systematic reviews, meta analyses and guidelines) from the last 14 months for the following topics:
* Risk factors and aetiology
* Diagnosis and screening
* Pharmacological treatments
* Non-pharmacological treatments
* Rehabilitation, practice and care standards.
The National Library for Health (NLH) Specialist Libraries have been developed to identify and meet the information needs of particular communities of practice. They are web-based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. Each NLH Specialist Library identifies and provides access to quality assessed information of relevance to the community that it serves. An aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates consist of the good quality evidence from a search of research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research, if applicable. All information included in Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous selection criteria.
Posted by S.Austin at September 15, 2008 1:14 PM