Under half of psychiatrists tell patients their diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
- 29 August 1998
- Vol. 317 (7158) , 603
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.317.7158.603b
Abstract
EDITOR—Patients are currently requesting more information from their doctors.1 Patients with Alzheimer's disease and those who care for them are keen to be given more information about their illness.2 The recent development of treatments for patients with the disease has highlighted this issue,3 and therefore the preliminary results of …Keywords
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