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Alcohol related dementia — proposed clinical criteria
Author(s)	David Oslin, Roland M Atkinson, David M Smith
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 13, no 4, April 1998
Pages	pp 203-212
Keywords	Dementia ; Alcoholism ; Diagnosis ; United States of America.
Annotation	Current diagnostic criteria for Alcohol Related Dementia (ARD) are based almost exclusively on clinical judgment. Moreover, there are no guidelines available to assist the clinician or the researcher in distinguishing ARD from other causes of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, this distinction may have implications for the prognosis and treatment of patients. In this article, provisional diagnostic criteria for establishing a diagnosis of ARD are proposed for further study. The criteria are based on the available literature on the relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia, and were modelled after existing diagnostic criteria for AD and vascular dementia. Validity of these criteria for distinguishing AD from ARD will require further study. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980508001 A
Classmark	EA: ETA: LK7: 7T
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