Improving the screening power of the cognitive abilities screening instrument, Chinese version

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 314-320

  Tsai, Rung Ching ^a   Lin, Ker Neng ^b,d   Wu, Kuan Ying ^a   Liu, Hsiu Chih ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument; Logistic regression; Receiver operating characteristics curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 5644254347     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080125     Document Type: Article

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