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T. Battcock
Researcher at Poole Hospital
Publications - 18
Citations - 394
T. Battcock is an academic researcher from Poole Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mini–Mental State Examination & Dementia. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 18 publications receiving 385 citations. Previous affiliations of T. Battcock include University of Leicester & Liverpool Hospital.
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Pharmacological treatment of urinary incontinence.
T. Battcock,C M Castleden +1 more
TL;DR: Urinary incontinence is a major problem especially to the elderly and the only absolute indications for drug therapy in this condition are infection and atrophic urethritis.
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Misclassification of Dementia by the Mini-Mental State Examination— Are Education and Social Class the only Factors?
TL;DR: Analysis of those subjects who were found to be free of dementia at the clinical assessment demonstrated that the very elderly, those from the manual social classes and subjects with visual impairments had an increased chance of being misclassified as demented by the MMSE.
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The prevalence of dementia in a total population: a comparison of two screening instruments.
TL;DR: Two short screening tests for dementia, the Information/Orientation (IO) sub-test of the Clifton Assessment Scale (CAPE) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) were included in a survey of 1579 elderly people of a large general practice.
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Patients' views on how to run hospital outpatient clinics.
TL;DR: Patients wanted fixed appointment times, to see the same doctor on successive visits, for the staff to be formally dressed and to have chaperons during examination.
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Observations on herpes zoster: 1. Residual scarring and post-herpetic neuralgia; 2. Handedness and the risk of infection.
TL;DR: The risk of developing post-herpetic neuralgia is related to the degree of residual scarring, and subjects over the age of 60 with more than 10 cm2 of residual scars have a very high risk as discussed by the authors.