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Cognitive Impairment

Medical Clinics of North America, 2006
As populations continue to age, the prevalence of dementia is expected to increase. AD is by far the most common cause of dementia. The clinical course of dementia represents the challenges that this disease presents. There are no truly effective therapies for treating dementia, and the cost effectiveness of ChEIs has been challenged; however, there ...
Seema, Joshi, John E, Morley
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The Impaired Surgeon

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2016
Impaired physicians are unable to manage professional activities safely. Impairment can be the result of physical or mental disorders, but impaired physicians commonly refers to those suffering from substance use disorders. These disorders are at least as common in physicians as they are in the general population, and physician health programs have ...
Ranjan, Sudan, Keri, Seymour
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IMPAIRED PHYSICIANS

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1993
The prevalence of chemical dependency among physicians in the United States is probably the same as for the general population, about 8% to 12%. Organized medicine has responded to this problem by establishing programs to help these impaired physicians.
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Dyslexia: Verbal impairments in the absence of magnocellular impairments

Neuroreport, 2002
Sensitivity to dynamic visual and auditory stimuli was assessed in dyslexic children (Grade 7) who at school entrance had suffered from the well-established double-deficit of impaired phonological sensitivity and deficient rapid naming performance. A visual magnocellular deficit was assessed by the coherent motion detection task of the Oxford group. An
Martin, Kronbichler   +2 more
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Visual impairment

2016
This chapter can guide the use of imaging in the evaluation of common visual syndromes: transient visual disturbance, including migraine and amaurosis fugax; acute optic neuropathy complicating multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, and Susac syndrome; papilledema and pseudotumor cerebri syndrome;
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Impairment Tutorial: Hearing Impairment

AMA Guides® Newsletter, 2003
Abstract A 1999 study of adults showed hearing loss was the fifth most common disability in the US population, and almost 50% of workers in carpentry, plumbing, and mining had hearing impairment. Determining hearing impairment according to the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Fifth Edition, Section 11.2a, Criteria for ...
Kathryn Mueller, Christopher R. Brigham
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Functional Impairment in the Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment

Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 2011
The criterion on functional activity in the revised diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) seems to be conceptually and operationally problematic.We investigated the predictive validity for dementia of this criterion in 140 patients with MCI who participated in the baseline study of the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging and
Ji Won, Han   +10 more
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Impaired Consciousness

2012
Coma and other states of impaired consciousness are common in stroke patients. Sudden disturbance of consciousness can be the predominant clinical syndrome in the brainstem stroke, particularly in the case of basilar artery occlusion. Clinicians need to thoroughly investigate for the presence of stroke in patients with sudden disturbance of ...
Monica, Acciarresi, Andrea, Alberti
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The Impaired Psychiatrist

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1990
Precise data on impaired psychiatrists is lacking, but the evidence suggests significant prevalence due to mental illness, substance abuse, and personality disorder. The complexity and stress of the profession may induce and aggravate vulnerabilities that lead to impaired functioning.
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Impaired mind vs. Impaired body

Geriatric Nursing, 1991
E J, Shook, C M, Beck
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