Assessing the discriminant ability, reliability, and comparability of multiple short forms of the boston naming test in an Alzheimer's disease center cohort

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 215-227

  Katsumata, Yuriko ^a   Mathews, Melissa ^a   Abner, Erin L ^a,b   Jicha, Gregory A ^a,b   Caban Holt, Allison ^a,b   Smith, Charles D ^a,b   Nelson, Peter T ^a,b   Kryscio, Richard J ^a,b   Schmitt, Frederick A ^a,b   Fardo, David W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Clinical diagnosis; Clinical neuropsychology; Cognitive impairment; Cohort studies; Dementia and neuropsychology; Design, analysis, interpretation of data; Longitudinal assessment; Mild cognitive impairment and dementia; Neuropsychiatric assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOSTON NAMING TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; ANOMIA; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84921843690     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000370108     Document Type: Article

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