Accordingly, GPs play a vital role in identifying patients with possible dementia and undertaking additional diagnostic procedures. Currently, however, the ability of most GPs to perform assessments for dementia is limited. It is important that tests to confirm the presence of dementia be performed ...
“Health services don’t routinely offer the tests needed to detect changes in brain function that happen before symptoms are noticeable, like those alluded to in this study. “We must ensure that people with dementia don’t fall through the cracks at a time when treatment or risk-reduction ...
The final model including five tests has an area under the curve of 0.95. Sophisticated neuropsychological computerized tests have little added value in the diagnostic work-up of dementia in general practice. Basic clinical tests used in an appropriate sequence can be very valuable in establishing ...
Synopsis Using standardized history, physical and neurological exami-nations, laboratory evaluation, and tests of cognitive performance, mood, and functional status, 155 patients admitted consecutively to an outpatient dementia clinic were diagnosed as" demented" or"DOI...
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb01817.xG. S. Rai MDConsultant Physician/Senior LecturerG. WrightLecturer/Honarary Senior Registrar Whittington Hospital Highgate Hill, London N19 5NF Great BritainJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdJournal of the American Geriatrics Society...
the role of eeg in the diagnosis and classification of the epilepsy syndromes_ a tool for clinical practice by the ilae neurophysiology task force 热度: Neuropsychological tests for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias a generic protocol for cross-sectional and delayed-ve...
We undertook a retrospective analysis of a series of ambulatory outpatients with dementia to determine the prevalence with which patients were diagnosed by each of these diagnostic schemes, and to survey the clinical characteristics associated with VaD. We found that the diagnostic schemes for VaD ...
A self-administered questionnaire--mailed to 203 physicians (response rate 37%)--included items covering medical and specialty training, numbers of patients examined, evaluation approaches, use of formal diagnostic criteria, use of mini-mental tests, use of dementia severity rating scales, use of ...
Dementia is reversible in a minority of patients, and these should be diagnosed but without subjecting the majority with irreversible disease to an excessive set of investigations. Should a battery of ancillary investigations be performed routinely in dementia? Or can these tests be carried out as ...
Cambridge scientists have shown that it is possible to spot signs of brain impairment in patients as early as nine years before they receive a diagnosis for one of a number of dementia-related diseases. In research published today inAlzheimers & Dementia, the team analyzed data from the UK Bio...