Efficacy of language assessment in Alzheimer's disease: comparing in-person examination and telemedicine | Zendy

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Efficacy of language assessment in Alzheimer's disease: comparing in-person examination and telemedicine

Author(s) -

Lindsey Vestal,

Laura Smith-Olinde,

Gretchen Spring Hicks,

Terri J. Hutton,

John Hart

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

clinical interventions in aging

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184

H-Index - 76

eISSN - 1178-1998

pISSN - 1176-9092

DOI - 10.2147/ciia.2006.1.4.467

Subject(s) - medicine , telemedicine , dementia , test (biology) , cognition , disease , wilcoxon signed rank test , alzheimer's disease , audiology , physical therapy , psychiatry , pathology , health care , paleontology , mann–whitney u test , economics , biology , economic growth

With the large number of aging individuals requiring screening of cognitive functions for dementing illnesses, there is a necessity for innovative evaluation approaches. One domain that should allow for online, at a distance, examination is speech and language dysfunction, if the auditory and visual transmission is of sufficient quality to allow adequate patient participation and reliable, valid interpretation of signs and symptoms (Duffy et al 1997).

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