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Is the 6cit dementia test ever diagnostic? it claims a specifity of 100 in some studies.
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No: No tests are diagnositc just info that needs to be integrated in the patients entire picture by a clinician who had done an entire evaluation . THere are often several reasons possible for the same symptoms
Answered 9/15/2019
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