The utility of the Mini-Mental Status Exam in older adults with traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 20, Issue 13-14, 2006, Pages 1377-1382

  Srivastava, Anil ^a   Rapoport, Mark Jeffrey ^a,b   Leach, Larry ^b   Phillips, Andrea ^b   Shammi, Prathiba ^b   Feinstein, Anthony ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Elderly; Mini Mental Status Examination; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33847225569     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050601111385     Document Type: Article

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