Is the clock drawing test appropriate for screening for mild cognitive impairment? - Results of the german study on ageing, cognition and dementia in primary care patients (AgeCoDe)

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-372

  Ehreke, Lena ^a   Luppa, Melanie ^a   Luck, Tobias ^a   Wiese, Birgitt ^c   Weyerer, Siegfried ^d   Eifflaender Gorfer, Sandra ^d   Weeg, Dagmar ^e   Olbrich, Julia ^e   Van Den Bussche, Hendrik ^f   Bachmann, Cadja ^f   Eisele, Marion ^f   Maier, Wolfgang ^g   Jessen, Frank ^g   Wagner, Michael ^g   Fuchs, Angela ^h   Pentzek, Michael ^h   Angermeyer, Matthias C ^a   König, Hans Helmut ^b   Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Health Economics Research   (United States)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clock Drawing Test; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATIENTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70350547903     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000253484     Document Type: Article

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