Included | Excluded |
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Population: People living with dementia | |
• Sources that include a participant group who are affected with dementia OR • Sources that focus on the dementia patient population |
• Sources in which it is not made explicit that the participant group is affected with dementia OR • Sources that focus on non-dementia patient population |
Concept: Dementia care pathway | |
• Defined as an approach to systematically planning, modifying, or varying patient care or organizing follow-up care across four common points: early symptom identification and first service encounters, assessment process, diagnostic disclosure, and post-diagnostic support and appropriate intervention | • Sources that focus on pathways for end-of-life, responsive behaviours or on one of the four common points only |
• Sources that are academic literature (i.e., studies, conceptual papers) | • Sources with insufficient details to meaningfully meet the scoping review objectives |
• Sources from any geographic region | • Sources without English language full text |