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GuidelineAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2025

The Alzheimer's Association clinical practice guideline for the Diagnostic Evaluation, Testing, Counseling, and Disclosure of Suspected Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (DETeCD-ADRD): Executive summary of recommendations for specialty care.

Bradford C Dickerson, Alireza Atri, Carolyn Clevenger, Jason Karlawish, David Knopman, Pei-Jung Lin, Mary Norman, Chiadi Onyike, Mary Sano, Susan Scanland and 1 more

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In one paragraph

Guideline in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07630688 (Turkish Validity and Reliability Study of the MoCA-B Test), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07630688 completednot on this map

Turkish Validity and Reliability Study of the MoCA-B Test

TypeobservationalSponsorAntalya Training and Research HospitalRan2024 to 2026Enrolled166ConditionsBehavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, Dementia, Dementia (Diagnosis), Dementia Alzheimer Type
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Bradford C DickersonFrontotemporal Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Alireza AtriBanner Sun Health Research Institute and Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Sun City, Arizona, USA.
Carolyn ClevengerDepartment of Neurology, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Jason KarlawishDepartments of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Memory Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
David KnopmanDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Pei-Jung LinCenter for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Mary NormanCedars-Sinai Medical Center, Culver City, California, USA.
Chiadi OnyikeDivision of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Mary SanoJames J. Peters VAMC, Bronx, New York, USA.
Susan ScanlandDementia Connection, LLC, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, USA.
Maria CarrilloMedical & Scientific Relations Division, Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Funding

Research Education ComponentP30AG062421 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Christine S Ritchie · 2019 to 2026
$36.5M
Research Education ComponentP30AG072980 · NIA · BANNER HEALTH · PI ALIREZA ATRI · 2021 to 2026
$24.9M
Research Education ComponentP30AG072979 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DAVID A WOLK · 2021 to 2026
$24.8M
Alzheimer's AssociationNIA NIH HHS P30 AG062421NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072979NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072980
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

US clinical practice guidelines for the diagnostic evaluation of cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) or a related dementia (ADRD) are two decades old. This evidence-based guideline was developed to empower all clinicians to implement a structured approach for evaluating a patient with symptoms that may represent clinical AD/ADRD. An expert workgroup conducted a review of 7374 publications (133 met inclusion criteria) and developed recommendations as steps in an evaluation process. This summary briefly reviews core recommendations and details specialist recommendations of a high-quality, evidence-supported evaluation process aimed at characterizing, diagnosing, and disclosing the patient's cognitive functional status, cognitive-behavioral syndrome, and likely underlying brain disease so that optimal care plans to maximize patient/care partner dyad quality of life can be developed; a companion article summarizes primary care recommendations. If clinicians use the recommendations in this guideline and health-care systems provide adequate resources, outcomes should improve in most patients in most practice settings. HIGHLIGHTS: US clinical practice guidelines for the diagnostic evaluation of cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) or related dementias (ADRD) are decades old and aimed at specialists. This evidence-based guideline was developed to empower all-including primary care-clinicians to implement a structured approach for evaluating a patient with symptoms that may represent clinical AD/ADRD. This summary focuses on recommendations appropriate for specialty practice settings, forming key elements of a high-quality, evidence-supported evaluation process aimed at characterizing, diagnosing, and disclosing the patient's cognitive functional status, cognitive-behavioral syndrome, and likely underlying brain disease so that optimal care plans to maximize patient/care partner dyad quality of life can be developed; a companion article summarizes primary care recommendations. If clinicians use this guideline and health-care systems provide adequate resources, outcomes should improve in most patients in most practice settings.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionCounselingDisclosureHumansUnited StatesAlzheimer's diseasecerebrospinal fluiddementiadiagnosisfrontotemporal dementiaLewy body dementiamagnetic resonance imagingmild cognitive impairmentmolecular biomarkerspositron emission tomographyvascular cognitive impairment

Identifiers

PMID39713957
PMCPMC11772716

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