Organisational aspects and assessment practices of Australian memory clinics: an Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Conducting a national survey of clinicians and administrators from specialised dementia assessment services (memory clinics) in Australia to examine their current organisational aspects and assessment procedures and inform clinical tool harmonisation as part of the Australian Dementia Network-memory clinics project.

Design

A cross-sectional survey.

Setting

Public and private memory clinics across Australia.

Participants

150 individual clinicians completed the survey between May and August 2019. Responses could be given anonymously. Most clinics were publicly funded services (83.2%) and in metropolitan regions (70.9%).

Outcome measures

Descriptive data on organisational aspects of memory clinics (eg, waiting times, staffing); the three most com

SUBMITTER: Mehrani I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875292 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature