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HSTAT: Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 3rd Edition: Recommendations and Systematic Evidence Reviews, Guide to Community Preventive Services U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Evidence Syntheses, formerly Systematic Evidence Reviews

20. Screening for Dementia

Systematic Evidence Review

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RTI International

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Contract No. 290-97-0011

Task No. 3

RTI Project No. 6919-003

Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH

Britt Peterson, MD, MPH

Russell Harris, MD, MPH

Linda J. Lux, MPA

Carol Krasnov

Sonya F. Sutton, BSPH

Laura Hanson, MD, MPH

Kathleen N. Lohr, PhD

June 2003

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