How useful is the IQCODE for discriminating between alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment and subjective memory complaints?

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 411-416

  Sikkes, Sietske A M ^a,b   Van Den Berg, Mark T ^a   Knol, Dirk L ^b   De Lange De Klerk, Elly S M ^b   Scheltens, Philip ^a,b   Uitdehaag, Bernard M J ^b   Klein, Martin ^b   Pijnenburg, Yolande A L ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive decline; Dementia; Diagnosis; Everyday functioning; Informant based questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMANT QUESTIONNAIRE ON COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBJECTIVE MEMORY COMPLAINT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 78149287655     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321697     Document Type: Article

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