At its annual meeting, the Alzheimer's Association previewed its first-ever clinical practice guidelines for primary care physicians evaluating Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and neurodegenerative cognitive behavioral syndromes, to be released in full later this year.
Twenty recommendations for primary and specialty care settings are in the new guidelines that were introduced at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference. Key points were outlined in a press release; the formal clinical practice guidelines will appear later in a peer-reviewed journal and will include rationales behind the recommendations to provide context for physicians and nurse practitioners.
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