Race-related cognitive test bias in the active study: A mimic model approach

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 426-452

  Aiken Morgan, Adrienne T ^a   Marsiske, Michael ^a   Dzierzewski, Joseph M ^a   Jones, Richard N ^b   Whitfield, Keith E ^c   Johnson, Kathy E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956930495     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2010.507427     Document Type: Article

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