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Accepted: 28 February 2023

First Online: 30 March 2023

Declarations

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: Open Access funding provided by the IReL Consortium. This article reports on an analysis of a pooled anonymous dataset from the second round of the Irish National Audit of Dementia Care (INAD-2) audit, which was funded within the Irish National Health Service, by the Health Service Executive (HSE). There was no funding for this secondary data analysis.

: All authors declare that they have no financial conflicts of interest. ST had been the Clinical Lead and Emer Begley the Acting General Manager for the HSE National Dementia Office at the time of the audit; Mairead Bracken-Scally was the National Audit Coordinator; Vida Hamilton was the National Clinical and Group Lead for acute hospitals in Ireland at the time of the audit.

: Ethical approval was granted by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee (CREC) of the Cork Teaching Hospitals, University College Cork (UCC).

: Not applicable.

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: Source data is not available from the authors for sharing, as the primary data was collected for quality improvement purposes by the Health Service Executive and permission for sharing does not lie with the authors of this paper. The National Dementia Office can be contacted at dementia.office@hse.ie. The audit tool detailed in this study that is presented in the manuscript as Online Resource 1 is available at: .

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: All authors—ST, MB-S, SC, PG, VH, EB, and EOS—participated in the writing and revision of this manuscript. ST, VH, EB, and PG had the idea for the article and had collected the primary dataset; ST, MB-S, SC, and EOS contributed to data analysis; MB-S wrote a preliminary partial draft and SC/ST wrote the first full draft; all authors read and contributed to draft refinements. All authors have read and approve the final submitted manuscript, and agree to be accountable for the work.