Assessing Alzheimer's disease patients with the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory: Scoring and clinical implications

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-25

  Weiner, Myron F ^a   Tractenberg, Rochelle E ^b   Jin, Shelia ^b   Gamst, Anthony ^b   Thomas, Ronald G ^b   Koss, Elisabeth ^c   Thal, Leon J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Assessment; Cohen Mansfield Agitation Inventory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPULSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RESTLESSNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SCRATCHING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036139828     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3956(01)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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