Online Clinical Consensus Diagnosis of Dementia: Development and Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To introduce cost-effective expert clinical diagnoses of dementia into population-based research using an online platform and to demonstrate their validity against in-person clinical assessment and diagnosis.

Design

The online platform provides standardized data necessary for clinicians to rate participants on the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR^® ). Using this platform, clinicians diagnosed 60 patients at a range of CDR levels at two clinical sites. The online consensus diagnosis was compared with in-person clinical consensus diagnosis.

Setting

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, and National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India.

Participants

Thirty patients each at AIIMS and NIMHANS wi

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7513553 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature