Screening for impaired cognitive function among the elderly in Spain: reducing the number of items in the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-145

  Gornemann, Isolde ^a   Zunzunegui, María Victoria ^b   Martínez, Carmen ^b   Del Carmen Onís, María ^c  

^a HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^c Maria del Carmen Onis Occidente H   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Elderly; Epidemiology; Screening tests

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SPAIN;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SPAIN; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 0033590273     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(99)00089-X     Document Type: Article

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