The concise cognitive test for dementia screening: Reliability and effects of demographic variables as compared to the mini mental state examination

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 702-707

  Srinivasan, Srikanth ^a  

^a Lanka Hospitals ^*  (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Age; dementia; education; Mini Mental State Examination; screening

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RATING SCALE; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78149394299     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.72167     Document Type: Article

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