Diagnosing dementia: No easy job

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Buntinx, Frank ^a,b   De Lepeleire, Jan ^a   Paquay, Louis ^a,c   Iliffe, Steve ^d   Schoenmakers, Birgitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Wit gele Kruis Van Belgie   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

DEMENTIA; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959552924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-60     Document Type: Article

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