Primary care physicians' attitudes towards cognitive screening: findings from a national postal survey.

Objective: The objectives of this paper are: (a) to determine Canadian family physicians' attitudes towards cognitive screening, (b) to identify what cognitive screening tools are being used, (c) to investigate how they rate these tools' effectiveness and (d) to identify the attributes of an ideal cognitive screening tool for the primary care setting.

Method: Postal survey questionnaire of a random sample of 249 practicing members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Results: Response rate was 52%.