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  1. Implementing Palliative Care Teams Specialized in Dementia in Two Countries: Experiences of Failure and Success
  2. Causes of reporting bias: a theoretical framework
  3. Determinants of selective reporting: A taxonomy based on content analysis of a random selection of the literature
  4. Effects of two feedback interventions on end-of-life outcomes in nursing home residents with dementia: A cluster-randomized controlled three-armed trial
  5. Professional caregivers' experiences with the Liverpool Care Pathway in dementia: An ethnographic study in a Dutch nursing home
  6. Pneumonia in Nursing Home Patients With Advanced Dementia: Decisions, Intravenous Rehydration Therapy, and Discomfort
  7. progress in 30 years of hospice care in dementia
  8. When physicians specialised in care for older people feel that dying involved suffering
  9. General practitioners’ perceptions of the barriers and solutions to good-quality palliative care in dementia
  10. Changes in Care Goals and Treatment Orders Around the Occurrence of Health Problems and Hospital Transfers in Dementia: A Prospective Study
  11. Pneumonia, Intake Problems, and Survival Among Nursing Home Residents With Variable Stages of Dementia in the Netherlands
  12. Improving comfort in people with dementia and pneumonia: a cluster randomized trial
  13. Symptom relief in patients with pneumonia and dementia: implementation of a practice guideline
  14. Initiating advance care planning on end-of-life issues in dementia: Ambiguity among UK and Dutch physicians
  15. Comparing Palliative Care in Care Homes Across Europe (PACE): Protocol of a Cross-sectional Study of Deceased Residents in 6 EU Countries
  16. Prospective Observations of Discomfort, Pain, and Dyspnea in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia and Pneumonia
  17. Effects of a Stepwise Multidisciplinary Intervention for Challenging Behavior in Advanced Dementia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
  18. Characteristics Associated with Quality of Life in Long-Term Care Residents with Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Study
  19. Orofacial Pain during Mastication in People with Dementia: Reliability Testing of the Orofacial Pain Scale for Non-Verbal Individuals
  20. Palliative Care in People With Young-Onset Dementia (YOD): An Undiscovered Area!
  21. Tools to Assess Pain or Lack of Comfort in Dementia: A Content Analysis
  22. Advance Care Planning in Nursing Home Patients With Dementia: A Qualitative Interview Study Among Family and Professional Caregivers
  23. Achieving consensus and controversy around applicability of palliative care to dementia
  24. Critical Decisions for Older People With Advanced Dementia: A Prospective Study in Long-Term Institutions and District Home Care
  25. From Admission to Death: Prevalence and Course of Pain, Agitation, and Shortness of Breath, and Treatment of These Symptoms in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia
  26. General practitioners perceptions on advance care planning for patients living with dementia
  27. European palliative care guidelines: how well do they meet the needs of people with impaired cognition?: Table 1
  28. Factors Related to Rejection of Care and Behaviors Directed towards Others: A Longitudinal Study in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia
  29. Measuring End-of-Life Care and Outcomes in Residential Care/Assisted Living and Nursing Homes
  30. Effect of tailored antibiotic stewardship programmes on the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in nursing homes
  31. What research we no longer need in neurodegenerative disease at the end of life: The case of research in dementia
  32. Antibiotic Prescribing In Dutch Nursing Homes: How Appropriate Is It?
  33. Comfort goal of care and end-of-life outcomes in dementia: A prospective study
  34. An evaluation of palliative care contents in national dementia strategies in reference to the European Association for Palliative Care white paper
  35. Effects of Nursesʼ Screening of Spiritual Needs of Hospitalized Patients on Consultation and Perceived Nursesʼ Support and Patientsʼ Spiritual Well-being
  36. Factors influencing antibiotic prescribing in long-term care facilities: a qualitative in-depth study
  37. Factors Related to Establishing a Comfort Care Goal in Nursing Home Patients with Dementia: A Cohort Study among Family and Professional Caregivers
  38. Predictors of spiritual care provision for patients with dementia at the end of life as perceived by physicians: a prospective study
  39. Antibiotic Use and Associated Factors in Patients with Dementia: A Systematic Review
  40. Symptoms and treatment when death is expected in dementia patients in long-term care facilities
  41. Verwijzen naar het hospice: verwijsgedrag van artsen en ervaren belemmeringen in Deventer en omgeving
  42. Development of a practice guideline for optimal symptom relief for patients with pneumonia and dementia in nursing homes using a Delphi study
  43. Letter Referring to the Article “Development and Testing of a Decision Aid on Goals of Care for Advanced Dementia” by Einterz et al
  44. Hospitalizations of nursing home residents with dementia in the last month of life: Results from a nationwide survey
  45. Factors Associated with Initiation of Advance Care Planning in Dementia: A Systematic Review
  46. Dying With Dementia: Symptoms, Treatment, and Quality of Life in the Last Week of Life
  47. Participatory action research in antimicrobial stewardship: a novel approach to improving antimicrobial prescribing in hospitals and long-term care facilities
  48. Quality of Dying in Nursing Home Residents Dying with Dementia: Does Advanced Care Planning Matter? A Nationwide Postmortem Study
  49. When do people with dementia die peacefully? An analysis of data collected prospectively in long-term care settings
  50. White paper defining optimal palliative care in older people with dementia: A Delphi study and recommendations from the European Association for Palliative Care
  51. Advance Care Planning and Physician Orders in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: A Nationwide Retrospective Study Among Professional Caregivers and Relatives
  52. Palliatieve zorg bij mensen met een dementie
  53. The Bedford Alzheimer Nursing-Severity Scale to Assess Dementia Severity in Advanced Dementia
  54. Outcome Measures for Dementia in the Advanced Stage and at the End of Life
  55. Retrospective and Prospective Data Collection Compared in the Dutch End of Life in Dementia (DEOLD) Study
  56. Continuous Deep Sedation Until Death in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: A Case Series
  57. Interventions targeting pain or behaviour in dementia: A systematic review
  58. Spiritual End-of-Life Care in Dutch Nursing Homes: An Ethnographic Study
  59. Feedback on end-of-life care in dementia: the study protocol of the FOLlow-up project
  60. Involvement in Activities and Wandering in Nursing Home Residents With Cognitive Impairment
  61. Nursing Home Residents Dying With Dementia in Flanders, Belgium: A Nationwide Postmortem Study on Clinical Characteristics and Quality of Dying
  62. Quality of dying of nursing home residents with dementia as judged by relatives
  63. Apathy and Weight Loss in Nursing Home Residents: Longitudinal Study
  64. Caregivers’ understanding of dementia predicts patients’ comfort at death: a prospective observational study
  65. Selecting the Best Instruments to Measure Quality of End-of-Life Care and Quality of Dying in Long Term Care
  66. Selection Bias in Family Reports on End of Life with Dementia in Nursing Homes
  67. Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of a family booklet on comfort care in dementia: sensitive topics revised before implementation
  68. Ensuring continuous high-quality care for people with impaired cognition including dementia at the end of life
  69. Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Long Term Care Facilities
  70. Erratum
  71. A Family Booklet About Comfort Care in Advanced Dementia: Three-Country Evaluation
  72. Mortality Following Nursing Home–Acquired Lower Respiratory Infection: LRI Severity, Antibiotic Treatment, and Water Intake
  73. Which Score Most Likely Represents Pain on the Observational PAINAD Pain Scale for Patients with Dementia?
  74. Spiritual care in a hospital setting: nurses’ and patients’ perspectives
  75. Advance directives and physicians’ orders in nursing home residents with dementia in Flanders, Belgium: prevalence and associated outcomes
  76. Antibiotics and Mortality in Patients with Lower Respiratory Infection and Advanced Dementia
  77. Family Perceptions of End-of-Life Care for Long-Term Care Residents with Dementia: Differences Between the United States and the Netherlands
  78. Palliative care in institutional long-term care settings
  79. Measuring the Quality of Dying and Quality of Care When Dying in Long-Term Care Settings: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Available Instruments
  80. Underdiagnosis and undertreatment of depression in nursing home residents
  81. Effects of a spiritual care training for nurses
  82. Absence of Influenza A(H1N1) During Seasonal and Pandemic Seasons in a Sentinel Nursing Home Surveillance Network in the Netherlands
  83. Een handreiking voor familieleden over palliatieve zorg bij dementie: evaluatie door zorgverleners en familieleden
  84. Relationship between symptoms of depression and agitation in nursing home residents with dementia
  85. Psychometric properties of instruments to measure the quality of end-of-life care and dying for long-term care residents with dementia
  86. Spirituality at the End of Life: Conceptualization of Measurable Aspects—a Systematic Review
  87. Reply to the Letter to the Editor by Bellelli
  88. Physicians' and Nurses' Perceived Usefulness and Acceptability of a Family Information Booklet about Comfort Care in Advanced Dementia
  89. The difficulty of predicting mortality in nursing home residents
  90. The implementation of the serial trial intervention for pain and challenging behaviour in advanced dementia patients (STA OP!): a clustered randomized controlled trial
  91. Decision-making in patients with severe dementia and pneumonia: cross-national perspectives
  92. The good death, also in people with dementia: being painfree and treated with respect
  93. Prolonged Life and Increased Symptoms vs Prolonged Dying and Increased Comfort After Antibiotic Treatment in Patients With Dementia and Pneumonia
  94. The Importance of Physician Presence in Nursing Homes for Residents with Dementia and Pneumonia
  95. Dying with Dementia: What We Know after More than a Decade of Research
  96. A validated risk score to estimate mortality risk in patients with dementia and pneumonia: barriers to clinical impact
  97. Modifiable Factors Related to Abusive Behaviors in Nursing Home Residents With Dementia
  98. Het meten van kwaliteit van leven bij ernstig demente verpleeghuisbewoners: psychometrische eigenschappen van de QUALID-schaal
  99. Trends in Treatment of Pneumonia among Dutch Nursing Home Patients with Dementia
  100. Prognosis is important in decisionmaking in Dutch nursing home patients with dementia and pneumonia
  101. Jenny van der Steen
  102. Ratings of symptoms and comfort in dementia patients at the end of life: comparison of nurses and families
  103. Evaluations of end of life with dementia by families in Dutch and U.S. nursing homes
  104. Een prognostische score voor patiënten met pneumonie en dementie
  105. End-of-life Care for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
  106. Discomfort in dementia patients dying from pneumonia and its relief by antibiotics
  107. Benefits and pitfalls of pooling datasets from comparable observational studies: combining US and Dutch nursing home studies
  108. Tools for Determining Life Expectancy in End-Stage Dementia: Validation Studies
  109. Pilot influenzasurveillance in verpleeghuizen
  110. TREATMENTS IN PATIENTS DYING WITH DEMENTIA: A CROSS‐CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
  111. Pneumonia and Mortality in Elderly Patients: Response to a Letter by Dr Rozzini et al
  112. Prediction of 6-month Mortality in Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia: Validity of a Risk Score
  113. Dementia, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, and Long-Term Mortality
  114. The ‘natural’ endpoint of dementia: death from cachexia or dehydration following palliative care?
  115. Treatment strategy and risk of functional decline and mortality after nursing-home acquired lower respiratory tract infection: two prospective studies in residents with dementia
  116. A Cross-Cultural Study of Physician Treatment Decisions for Demented Nursing Home Patients Who Develop Pneumonia
  117. Palliative Care in Patients with Severe Dementia
  118. Predictors of mortality for lower respiratory infections in nursing home residents with dementia were validated transnationally
  119. Hospitalization Trends for Pneumonia Among Older Persons
  120. A Cross-Cultural Study of Physician Treatment Decisions for Demented Nursing Home Patients Who Develop Pneumonia
  121. Antibiotic Treatment and Survival of Nursing Home Patients With Lower Respiratory Tract Infection: A Cross-National Analysis
  122. Celebrate Geriatrics:
  123. End-of-Life Decision Making in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia and Pneumonia: Dutch Physicians?? Intentions Regarding Hastening Death
  124. The last days of life of nursing home patients with and without dementia assessed with the Palliative care Outcome Scale
  125. Withholding or Starting Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with Dementia and Pneumonia: Prediction of Mortality with Physicians' Judgment of Illness Severity and with Specific Prognostic Models
  126. Symptoms, Signs, Problems, and Diseases of Terminally Ill Nursing Home Patients
  127. A Model for Quality of Life Measures in Patients with Dementia: Lawton’s Next Step
  128. Treatment of Nursing Home Residents with Dementia and Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in the United States and the Netherlands: An Ocean Apart
  129. Do Findings of High Mortality From Pneumonia in the Elderly Make It the Old Man's Friend?
  130. Medical Treatment of Acute Illnesses in End-Stage Dementia—Reply
  131. Medical Treatment of Acute Illnesses in End-Stage Dementia—Reply
  132. Pneumonia: The Demented Patient's Best Friend? Discomfort After Starting or Withholding Antibiotic Treatment
  133. Withholding Antibiotic Treatment in Pneumonia Patients With Dementia
  134. Severe Dementia and Adverse Outcomes of Nursing Home-Acquired Pneumonia: Evidence for Mediation by Functional and Pathophysiological Decline
  135. Decisions to Treat or Not to Treat Pneumonia in Demented Psychogeriatric Nursing Home Patients: Evaluation of a Guideline
  136. When should physicians forgo curative treatment of pneumonia in patients with dementia?: Using a guideline for decision-making
  137. Decisions to treat or not to treat pneumonia in demented psychogeriatric nursing home patients: development of a guideline