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Population Health Solutions for Assessing Cognitive Impairment in Geriatric Patients
recognizing the importance of educating patients and healthcare providers about the value of assessing current and baseline cognition; emphasizing that any screening tool must be appropriately normalized and validated in the population in which it is used to obtain accurate information, including co...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183165/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30480142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igy025 |
Sumario: | recognizing the importance of educating patients and healthcare providers about the value of assessing current and baseline cognition; emphasizing that any screening tool must be appropriately normalized and validated in the population in which it is used to obtain accurate information, including considerations of language, cultural factors, and education; and recognizing the great potential, with appropriate caveats, of electronic health records to augment cognitive screening and tracking of changes in cognitive health over time. |
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