Identifying cognitive impairment during the Annual Wellness Visit: Who can you trust?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 653-659

  Clionsky, Mitchell ^a   Clionsky, Emilymarie ^a  

^a Clionsky Neuro Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY MEDICINE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MEMORY ORIENTATION SCREENING TEST; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; SCREENING TEST; VISUAL ANALOG COGNITION SCALE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLBEING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84555203350     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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