Variations in anti-dementia drug prescribing

Abstract

In the context of a project to benchmark anti-dementia drug prescribing practice against standards derived from evidence-based guidelines, the authors sought to estimate the proportion of people with dementia who were receiving treatment with an anti-dementia drug and whether this varied across Primary Care Trust (PCT) populations. They also explored the relative proportion of prescriptions for each anti-dementia drug, and the source of these prescriptions - GPs, Mental Health Trusts or acute Trusts.