Does This Patient Have Dementia?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 554-556

  Carpenter, Christopher R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA EXTRACTION; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NURSING HOME; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 54149086940     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.10.024     Document Type: Editorial

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