Current Diagnostic Criteria of Alzheimer's Disease
Journal of Korean Geriatric Psychiatry
;
: 3-6, 2012.
Article
in Korean
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ABSTRACT
As Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in older people, many efforts for accurate and reliable clinical diagnoses have been made all over the world. Generally diagnostic process of Alzheimer's disease is constituted with two steps:
1) to determine whether a patient is actually demented, 2) to determine whether the dementia actually caused by Alzheimer's disease. Newly developed diagnostic criteria, such as diagnostic criteria of the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association improve their specificity to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. We need Korean specific guideline for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease compatible in Korean clinical situation.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Sensitivity and Specificity
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Dementia
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Alzheimer Disease
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Practice guideline
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Geriatric Psychiatry
Year:
2012
Type:
Article
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