title: Italian Multicenter Study on Dementia: a protocol for data collection and clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. The SMID Group.
abstract: This paper describes a protocol for identifying patients suspected of having Alzheimer's disease (AD) which was used in a long-term multicenter study in Italy. It relies on a progressive elimination procedure to arrive at a clinical diagnosis of 'very probable AD', with a sensitivity of 0.96 in terms of 2 years follow-up data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurologic and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bracco
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Amaducci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires