Patterns of emergency department visits prior to dementia or cognitive impairment diagnosis: An opportunity for dementia detection?

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cognitive impairment, dementia, detection, diagnosis, emergency department

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10.1111/acem.14832

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Seidenfeld, Justine, Tessa Runels, Joseph L Goulet, Matthew Augustine, Cynthia A Brandt, Susan N Hastings, William W Hung, Luna Ragsdale, et al. (2025). Patterns of emergency department visits prior to dementia or cognitive impairment diagnosis: An opportunity for dementia detection?. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 32(5). pp. 570–573. 10.1111/acem.14832 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33243.

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Hastings

Susan Nicole Hastings

Professor of Medicine
Ragsdale

Luna Chen Ragsdale

Clinical Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine

Luna Ragsdale, MD, MPH, FACEP is the Chief of the Emergency Department at the Durham Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System.   Dr. Ragsdale also serves as the Geriatric Emergency Medicine consultant to VA's National Emergency Medicine Office.  In addition to her VA work, she is on the ACEP Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Board of Governors and is Chair of ACEP Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section.  


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