@article{ref1,
title="Elder abuse: do general practitioners know or care?",
journal="Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine",
year="2000",
author="McCreadie, C. and Bennett, G. and Gilthorpe, M. S. and Houghton, G. and Tinker, A.",
volume="93",
number="2",
pages="67-71",
abstract="A pilot survey in Tower Hamlets, London, indicated that many general practitioners (GPs) might not be recognizing abuse of elderly patients through lack of training. The survey was replicated on a large scale in Birmingham, to allow further analysis. 561 Birmingham GPs were mailed questionnaires and responses from 291 were analysed, providing data from 95% of the practices. The findings were similar to those in Tower Hamlets: just under half had diagnosed elder abuse in the previous year. Regression analysis of the combined data-sets (n = 363) indicated that the strongest factor predicting GP diagnosis of abuse was knowledge of 5 or more risk situations (odds ratio 6.77, 95% confidence interval 4.19, 10.93). The findings of these surveys suggest that research-based education and training would help GPs to become better at identifying and managing elder abuse.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0141-0768",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}