The validity of psychometric instruments for detection of dementia in the elderly general population

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 368-380

  Heun, R ^a   Papassotiropoulos, A ^a   Jennssen, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive tests; Dementia; Discriminant validity; Epidemiology; Memory; MMSE; Receiver operating characteristics analysis; SIDAM; Verbal fluency; Word list learning

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST;

AGED; AGING; AREA UNDER CURVE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEMENTIA; EFFICIENCY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRAIL MAKING TEST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031811179     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199806)13:6<368::AID-GPS775>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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