Chinese clinical practice guidelines for digital memory clinic

Abstract

Digital memory clinic aims to strengthen the early prevention and treatment of cognitive disorders by applying electronic assessment tools and digital auxiliary equipment to the management of cognitive disorders and sharing the information of the diagnosis and treatment from the hospitals at all levels. This guideline systematically retrieved and evaluated the effectiveness evidence related to the appropriate candidates of the digital memory clinic and the evaluation tools in various application scenarios, and recommended corresponding construction schemes for equipment configuration, personnel allocation and work flow suitable for the hospitals at all levels. Based on the empirical research and clinical practice in recent years, this guideline standardizes the selection of evaluation tools in various scenarios in the construction of digital memory outpatient clinic, refines the use of digital evaluation equipment, and clearly puts forward the responsibilities that hospitals at all levels should undertake. Release of this guideline will prompt the construction of digital memory outpatient department in hospitals at all levels, standardize the whole-process disease management for cognitive impairment patients and its high-risk groups (including combining reception, referral, intervention and follow-up), and extremely improve the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment.