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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia. Eric 09:15 And then who were the patients just with dementia or were they. Is that right?

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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2018 Nov;142(5):e20181009. Epub 2018 Oct 8. Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. You should develop a specific plan for each patient with each patient. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-1009. PMID: 30297499.

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