Clinical judgement by primary care physicians for the diagnosis of all-cause dementia or cognitive impairment in symptomatic people

Sam T. Creavin; Anna H. Noel-Storr; Edo Richard; Alexandra L. Creavin; Sarah Cullum; Yoav Ben-Shlomo; Sarah Purdy

doi:10.1002/14651858.CD012558

Clinical judgement by primary care physicians for the diagnosis of all-cause dementia or cognitive impairment in symptomatic people

Sam T. Creavin^*, Anna H. Noel-Storr, Edo Richard, Alexandra L. Creavin, Sarah Cullum, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Sarah Purdy

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Abstract

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Diagnostic test accuracy). The objectives are as follows: To determine the accuracy of general practitioners' overall gestalt (unaided) clinical judgement for diagnosing cognitive impairment and dementia in symptomatic people presenting to primary care. There is no comparator index test. To investigate the heterogeneity of test accuracy in the included studies.

Original language	English
Article number	CD012558
Number of pages	17
Journal	Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Volume	2017
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012558
Publication status	Published - 19 Feb 2017

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Creavin, S. T., Noel-Storr, A. H., Richard, E., Creavin, A. L., Cullum, S., Ben-Shlomo, Y., & Purdy, S. (2017). Clinical judgement by primary care physicians for the diagnosis of all-cause dementia or cognitive impairment in symptomatic people. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017(2), [CD012558]. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012558

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