Missing the diagnosis: senile dementia in patients admitted to nursing homes.

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Abstract

To establish dementia diagnoses in patients recently admitted to a nursing home by a geriatrician, and to compare the agreement with diagnoses recorded in the nursing home's medical records and with short screening instruments.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Scand J Prim Health Care

Title: Scandinavian journal of primary health care

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

ISSN: 0281-3432

ISSN (Print): 0281-3432

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2003

Volume: 21

Issue: 3

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[1 ] University of Bergen, Section for Geriatric Medicine, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Bergen, Norway. harald.nygaard@isf.uib.no

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DOI: 10.1080/02813430310001798

PubMed ID: 14531505

SO-VID: a7d099b6-0be6-4960-baa7-936d11ab6ba1

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