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THE PREVALENCE AND PHENOMENOLOGY OF PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS IN DEMENTIA SUFFERERS

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One hundred patients referred to old age psychiatry services in the West Midlands and 25 patients referred to a memory clinic in Bristol with mild to moderate dementia were assessed using the GMS/HAS schedule together with a detailed inventory to assess their psychotic symptoms. On careful evaluation one patient did not have dementia. Eighty-three of the other 124 patients (66.9%) had at least one psychotic symptom. The prevalence of psychotic symptoms in the patients from the West Midlands a...

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10.1002/gps.930100607

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Journal:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
Volume:
10
Issue:
6
Pages:
477-485
Publication date:
1995-06-01
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EISSN:
1099-1166
ISSN:
0885-6230
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uuid:141b2f0d-1f09-4f3e-8658-2ba5e5ddd2ad
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60902
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2012-12-19

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