Establishment of a teaching hospital-based dementia consultation service for rurally-based regional district general hospitals

• Main Authors: Björn H. Schott (Author), Jakob Christian Voetlause (Author), Juliana Lisa Amoah (Author), Alexander Kratzenberg (Author), Michael Belz (Author), Tobias Knipper (Author), Charles Timäus (Author), Carmen Beskow (Author), Catherine M. Sweeney-Reed (Author), Jens Wiltfang (Author), Katrin Radenbach (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ObjectiveThe treatment of patients with dementia poses a considerable challenge to regional district general hospitals, particularly in rural areas. Here we report the establishment and initial evaluation of a dementia-specific consultation service provided by a teaching hospital-based Psychiatry De...