The dementia cognitive fluctuation scale, a new psychometric test for clinicians to identify cognitive fluctuations in people with dementia

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 926-935

  Lee, David R ^a   McKeith, Ian ^a   Mosimann, Urs ^b   Ghosh Nodial, Arunima ^a   Grayson, Louise ^a   Wilson, Barbara ^a   Thomas, Alan J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive fluctuation; dementia; Lewy body; psychometric

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA COGNITIVE FLUCTUATION SCALE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DROWSINESS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITION; LEWY BODY DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84927956692     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.01.072     Document Type: Article

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