General practitioners' Judgment of their Elderly Patients' cognitive status

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1314-1317

  Pentzek, Michael ^a   Fuchs, Angela ^a   Wiese, Birgitt ^b   Cvetanovska Pllashniku, Gabriela ^c   Haller, Franziska ^c   Maier, Wolfgang ^c   Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^d   Angermeyer, Matthias C ^e   Bickel, Horst ^f   Mösch, Edelgard ^f   Weyerer, Siegfried ^g   Werle, Jochen ^g   Van Den Bussche, Hendrik ^h   Eisele, Marion ^h   Kaduszkiewicz, Hanna ^h  

^a Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e Center for Public Mental Health   (Austria)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical judgment; Cognition; Dementia; General practice

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC CARE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 72449165829     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-009-1118-2     Document Type: Article

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