Missing the diagnosis: Senile dementia in patients admitted to nursing homes

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 148-152

  Nygaard, Harald A ^a,b   Ruths, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Mental impairment; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; NORWAY; NURSING HOME; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCREENING; SENILE DEMENTIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NORWAY; NURSING HOMES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0141459644     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02813430310001798     Document Type: Article

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