title: Screening dementia in the outpatient department: patients at risk for dementia.
abstract: The targeted screening for individuals at the risks of having dementia would be crucial to the further public health issues for dementia. This study aimed to conduct a screening study in an outpatient department of a regional hospital to screen people who were at risk of developing comorbid dementia. Patients who visited Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital (KMTTH) clinics during the period from June 1, 2013, to May 31, 2014, were invited to participate in this screening voluntarily. The trained interviewer collected all participants' demographic characteristics and used the instrument of ascertainment of dementia 8 (AD8) to find out suspected dementia ones. The result showed a higher ratio (24.1%) of suspected dementia in the outpatient department of a hospital, 500 out of 2017 subjects, than that in the general population. The median (interquartile range) age was significantly higher in the suspected dementia participants (70, (62, 77)) compared to that in nonsuspected dementia ones (65, (60, 73)), and the probability of suspected dementia was significantly increasing with age (P<0.001). Instead of screening dementia in general population, screening people at the risk of dementia could be the practicable and important issues in the care of dementia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung City 80145, Taiwan ; Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 80708, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shu-Yu
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3886-5929
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Tai
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shu-Wan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chia-Ling
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-5990-3894
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung City 80145, Taiwan ; Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 80708, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chiu-Hsien
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9185-317X
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Taiwan ; Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Mei-Chuan
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Chou
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Taiwan ; Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan ; Mentality Protection Center, Fo Guang Shan Compassion Foundation, Kaohsiung City 80050, Taiwan ; Department of and Master's Program in Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 80708, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yuan-Han
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1918-9021
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology