Book Review: Mental Health Service Evaluation. Edited by Helle Charlotte Knudsen and Graham Thornicroft. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. No. of Pages: xx+379.

✍ Scribed by Neill Simpson

• Book ID: 101288950
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199711)12:11<1132::aid-gps710>3.0.co;2-4

✦ Synopsis

of place in assessing the eect of drugs for treatment of Alzheimer's disease, particularly in the early stages, because so many of the items would only change from normal' or without help' after 3±4 years of dementia. Clinicians studying the eect of Alzheimer's disease drugs may choose to select items from this scale, but in doing so they may run up against problems of validity.