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Dementia diagnostic guidelines
— methodologies, results, and implementation costs | | Author(s) | Cornelia Beck, Marisue Cody, Elaine Souder |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 48, no 10, October 2000 |
| Pages | pp 1195-1203 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Diagnosis ; Referrals ; Standards of provision ; Literature reviews ; International. |
| Annotation | 9 guidelines and consensus statements on diagnosing dementia with US or international scope found in a MEDLINE search are reviewed. Although there is unanimity on assessing the presenting problem, they differ in content, recommendations, and development methodology. Guideline publishers are: National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA, 1984); US National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement (NIH, 1987); Swedish consensus on dementia diseases (1994); American Academy of Neurology (AAN, 1994); the US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR, 1996); US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA, 1997); Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, Alzheimer's Association, and American Geriatrics Society (AAGP, 1997); Canadian Consensus Conference on Dementia (CAN, 1999); and the American Medical Association (AMA, 1999). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001211201 A |
| Classmark | EA: LK7: L5R: 583: 64A: 72 |
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