Dementia

Studies from University of Washington in the area of dementia described

Published in Mental Health Business Week, August 18th, 2007

According to recent research from the United States, "Early detection of cognitive impairment is a goal of high-quality geriatric medical care, but new approaches are needed to reduce rates of missed cases. To evaluate whether adding routine cognitive screening to primary care visits for older adults increases rates of dementia diagnosis, specialist referral, or prescribing of antidementia medications."

"Four primary care clinics in a university-affiliated primary care network. A quality improvement screening project and quasiexperimental comparison of 2 intervention clinics and 2 control clinics. The Mini-Cog was administered by medical assistants to intervention...

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Source: Mental Health Business Week (2007-08-18)

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