Does a reliable decline in mini mental state examination total score predict dementia? Diagnostic accuracy of two reliable change indices

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-58

  Hensel, Anke ^a   Luck, Tobias ^a   Luppa, Melanie ^a   Glaesmer, Heide ^a   Angermeyer, Matthias C ^b   Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Center for Public Mental Health   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive change; Diagnostic accuracy; Mini Mental State Examination; Reliable Change Index

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 58149142536     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000189267     Document Type: Article

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