A memory clinic at a geriatric hospital: A report on 577 patients assessed with the CAMDEX over 9 years

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-326

  Stratford, Joe A ^b   LoGiudice, Dina ^c   Flicker, Leon ^d   Cook, Roslyn ^e   Waltrowicz, Wendy ^c   Ames, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL AGEING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; CAMDEX; Dementia; Memory clinics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HALLUCINOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL TEST; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOOD DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0038641044     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2003.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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