The Weigl Colour-Form Sorting Test: A quick and easily administered bedside screen for dementia and executive dysfunction

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 909-915

  Hobson, Peter ^a   Meara, Jolyon ^a   Taylor, Caroline ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive screen; Executive function; Parkinson's disease; Stroke; Weigl Colour Form Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE PATIENT; WEIGL COLOR FORM SORTING TEST;

AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 34648837046     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1765     Document Type: Article

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