Quality Improvement in Dementia Care: Dementia Management Quality Measurement Set 2018 Implementation Update

Susan K Schultz1, Maria D Llorente1, Amy E Sanders1

  • 1From the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital (S.K.S.), University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (S.K.S.), University of South Florida, Tampa; Department of Psychiatry (M.D.L.), VA Medical Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Wash., DC; Memory Care Center (A.E.S.), Ayer Neuroscience Institute, Hartford Healthcare Medical Group, Wethersfield, Conn.; Department of Neurology (W.A.T.), Christiana Care, Newark, Del.; American Academy of Neurology (A.B.), Minneapolis, Minn.; American Psychiatric Association (S.S.), Washington, DC; Sheppard Pratt Health System (R.R.), Towson, Md.; Department of Psychiatry (R.R.), University of Maryland School of Medicine; and Department of Psychiatry (R.R.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.

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