The clinical dementia rating scale: Community-based validation of 'profound' and 'terminal' stages

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1746-1749

  Dooneief, George ^a   Marder, Karen ^a   Tang, Ming Xin ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^a  

^a P and S Box #16 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029886811     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.6.1746     Document Type: Article

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