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Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia
Ismail Z, Black SE, Camicioli R, Chertkow H, Herrmann N, Laforce R, Montero-Odasso M, Rockwood K et al.. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2020-07-29
Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies
Since 1989, four Canadian Consensus Conferences on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD) have provided evidence-based dementia guidelines for Canadian clinicians and researchers. We present the results of the 5th CCCDTD, which convened in October 2019, to address topics chosen by the steering committee to reflect advances in the field, and build on previous guidelines. Topics included: (1) utility of the National Institute on Aging research framework for clinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis; (2) updating diagnostic criteria for vascular cognitive impairment, and its management; (3) dementia case finding and detection; (4) neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers in diagnosis; (5) use of non-cognitive markers of dementia for better dementia detection; (6) risk reduction/prevention; (7) psychosocial and non-pharmacological interventions; and (8) deprescription of medications used to treat dementia. We hope the guidelines are useful for clinicians, researchers, policy makers, and the lay public, to inform a current and evidence-based approach to dementia.
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APA 7th
Ismail, Z., Black, S. E., Camicioli, R., Chertkow, H., Herrmann, N., Laforce, R., et al. (2020). Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12105
Vancouver
Ismail Z, Black SE, Camicioli R, Chertkow H, Herrmann N, Laforce R, et al. Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 2020. doi:10.1002/alz.12105. PMID: 32725777.
BibTeX
@article{ismail2020-32725777,
author = {Ismail, Z. and Black, S. E. and Camicioli, R. and Chertkow, H. and Herrmann, N. and Laforce, R. and Montero-Odasso, M. and Rockwood, K. and others},
title = {{Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia}},
journal = {Alzheimer's \& dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1002/alz.12105},
pmid = {32725777},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12105}
}
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Key findings
- We present the results of the 5th CCCDTD, which convened in October 2019, to address topics chosen by the steering committee to reflect advances in the field, and build on previous guidelines.
Why it matters
This report presents consensus recommendations from the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia, covering topics such as diagnosis, biomarkers, risk reduction and non-pharmacological interventions. It is a guideline summary rather than a study testing a treatment or cure.
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Study details
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 54/100
Published in a leading specialty journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomized / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on senior author's track record, so that was left out: it earned 52 of the 96 points we could judge it on, which is 54 out of 100.
| Component | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 9 / 10 | Tier 2 — leading specialty journal (Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association) |
| Journal's citation record | 2 / 4 | Alzheimer s & Dementia: journal h-index 228 (OpenAlex, 2026-10-29) |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2020 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Randomized / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomization or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | 5 / 7 | Cited 243 times (OpenAlex, 2026-10-10) |
| Citations per year | 4 / 5 | 30.4 citations a year over 8 year(s) since 2020 |
| Impact for its field and year | 4 / 6 | Cited 19.9× the average for papers of its field and year (OpenAlex FWCI) |
| Cited by studies here | 3 / 6 | Cited by 11 other studies in this library |
| Still being cited | 3 / 4 | Cited 117 times in 2024–2026 (2026 still in progress; OpenAlex) |
| Senior author's track record | — / 4 | Senior author's record not available — left out of this score |
| Institution's track record | 2 / 3 | University of Toronto: institution h-index 1,923 (OpenAlex) |
| Multicenter collaboration | 3 / 3 | OpenAlex lists 17 institution(s) in 1 country |
| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 32725777) |
| Free to read | 2 / 2 | Free to read |
| Points | 52 / 96 | Scored on 19 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 52 of the 96 points we could judge it on is 54 out of 100. |
| Total | 54 / 100 | — |
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