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Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders—Alzheimer's Disease: A Pilot Study of a Practice Redesign Intervention to Improve the Quality of Dementia Care

  1. David B. Reuben MD,
  2. Carol P. Roth RN, MPH,
  3. Janet C. Frank DrPH,
  4. Susan H. Hirsch MPH,
  5. Diane Katz MPH,
  6. Heather McCreath PhD,
  7. Jon Younger MD,
  8. Marta Murawski MD, MSW,
  9. Elizabeth Edgerly PhD,
  10. Joanne Maher MSW,
  11. Katie Maslow MSW,
  12. Neil S. Wenger MD, MPH

Article first published online: 26 JAN 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02678.x

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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volume 58, Issue 2, pages 324–329, February 2010

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Reuben, D. B., Roth, C. P., Frank, J. C., Hirsch, S. H., Katz, D., McCreath, H., Younger, J., Murawski, M., Edgerly, E., Maher, J., Maslow, K. and Wenger, N. S. (2010), Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders—Alzheimer's Disease: A Pilot Study of a Practice Redesign Intervention to Improve the Quality of Dementia Care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58: 324–329. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02678.x

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  1. From the *Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and ††Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; †Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California; ‡The Polyclinic, Seattle, Washington; §San Jose Medical Group, San Jose, California; ∥Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter, Alzheimer's Association, Mountain View, California; #Western and Central Washington State Chapter, Alzheimer's Association, Seattle, Washington; and **Alzheimer's Association, Washington, District of Columbia

*Address correspondence to David B. Reuben, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Dept. of Medicine/Division of Geriatrics, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095. E-mail: Dreuben@mednet.ucla.edu

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  2. Article first published online: 26 JAN 2010
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