De Cock, Anne-Marie http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5505-0249
Perkisas, Stany
Verhoeven, Veronique
Vandewoude, Maurits
Fransen, Erik
Remmen, Roy
Article History
Received: 4 May 2018
Accepted: 28 July 2018
First Online: 4 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The ethics committee of Emmaus—St Maarten General Hospital Mechelen approved the study design in 2012 as a retrospective study on patient data using the standard procedure in dementia diagnosis customised with gait and bio-impedance analysis (Emmaus EC 1218). All participants consented to the tests at admission to the Memory Diagnose Center.
: The procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards for human experiments and approved by the ethical committee of the General Hospital St-Maarten.
: The clinical data records used in this study were anonymized before their use. Every participant signed an informed consent (IC). This IC procedure was part of the quality procedure maintained in the memory clinic to insure that patients and relatives are aware of the diagnostic pathway they will follow. For participants with cognitive impairment the information is given to the patient and the legal guardian. The signed document is also obtained from the patient and the legal guardian.