Psychiatric Morbidity in a Neurology-Based Memory Clinic: The Effect of Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1773-1778

  Hejl, Anne Mette ^a   Hørding, Merete ^a   Hasselbalch, Ellen ^a   Dam, Henrik ^a   Hemmingsen, Ralf ^a   Waldemar, Gunhild ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Depression; Memory clinic; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; DENMARK; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0346120139     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51563.x     Document Type: Article

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