The article “Unsolicited Patient Complaints Identify Physicians With Evidence of Neurocognitive
Disorders” by Dr. William Cooper et al.
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is a nested case–control study using data from 144 healthcare organizations to assess
whether words contained in unsolicited patient complaints differentiate physicians
with and without neurocognitive disorders. The authors found that patient complaints
were significantly more likely to include at least one word describing cognitive impairment
in cases (73%) compared to age/sex matched (8%) and site/complaint matched (18%) comparisons.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 15, 2018
Accepted:
May 15,
2018
Received:
May 14,
2018
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© 2018 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
