Medical decision-making in neurodegenerative disease: Mild AD and PD with cognitive impairment

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 483-485

  Griffith, H H ^a   Dymek, M P ^a   Atchison, P ^a   Harrell, L ^a   Marson, D C ^a   Marson, Daniel C ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 23244444483     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000171346.02965.80     Document Type: Article

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