Political drive to screen for pre-dementia: not evidence based and ignores the harms of diagnosis.

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Published in BMJ on September 09, 2013

Authors

David G Le Couteur1, Jenny Doust, Helen Creasey, Carol Brayne

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, ANZAC Medical Research Institute and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney and Sydney Research, Concord, 2139, Australia.

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