(MedPage Today) – Clinical practice recommendations cover both primary and specialty care

A three-step process underscores new clinical practice guidelines for primary and specialty care clinicians to evaluate patients who may have cognitive impairment or dementia due to Alzheimer’s or a related disease.

In broad terms, the evaluation should establish a patient’s cognitive functional status, cognitive-behavioral syndrome, and the likely etiology of impairments, said Brad Dickerson, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues of the Diagnostic Evaluation, Testing, Counseling, and Disclosure Clinical Practice Guideline (DETeCD-ADRD CPG) workgroup. (Read More)