Recognition of Alzheimer's disease: The 7 minute screen(TM)

Family Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 265-271

  Solomon, Paul R ^a   Pendlebury, William W ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRAWING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; SCREENING TEST; VERBALIZATION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031835213     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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