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Is case-ascertainment of Alzheimer's disease in field surveys practicable?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

A. S. Henderson  and
A. F. Jorm
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , August 1987 , pp. 549 - 555
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