Monitoring Alzheimer's patients for acute changes in cognitive functioning

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-56

  Sands, Laura P ^a   Phinney, Alison ^a   Katz, Ira R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

EID: 0033986693     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-200002000-00007     Document Type: Article

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