The validity and reliability of 6 sets of clinical criteria to classify Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in cases confirmed post-mortem: Added value of a decision tree approach

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 170-180

  Hogervorst, Eef ^a   Bandelow, S ^a   Combrinck, M ^a   Irani, S ^a   Smith, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease; Diagnostics; NINCDS ADRDA; Validity; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AUTOPSY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CADAVER; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION TREES; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038792563     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071006     Document Type: Article

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