Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Encouragement to consult GPs for memory concerns did not ensure earlier dementia diagnosis

Encouragement to consult GPs for memory concerns did not ensure earlier dementia diagnosis:

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Encouraging patients with potential memory deficits to seek early advice from a general practitioner (GP) empowered more of them to consult their GP, but GPs did not change their behavior and refer more to memory services or for earlier overall diagnosis of dementia, according to a trial publishing this week in PLOS Medicine by Gill Livingston, of University College London, and colleagues.


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