Validity and reliability of the Behavioural Assessment Tool for Cognition and Higher Function (BATCH) in neuropsychiatric patients

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 697-704

  Miller, Kathryn ^a,b   Walterfang, Mark ^a,b   Randhawa, Sharan ^a,b   Scholes, Amelia ^a,b   Mocellin, Ramon ^a,b   Velakoulis, Dennis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural; Cognition; Cognitive; NUCOG; Observation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BARTHEL INDEX; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR COGNITION AND HIGHER FUNCTION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANGUAGE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL PATIENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 34547588565     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701449203     Document Type: Article

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