The Reliability of Clock Drawing Test Scoring Systems Modeled on the Normative Data in Healthy Aging and Nonamnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 945-957

  Mazancova, Adela Fendrych ^a,b   Nikolai, Tomas ^a,b   Stepankova, Hana ^c   Kopecek, Miloslav ^c   Bezdicek, Ondrej ^a,c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Clock Drawing Test; cognitive screening; mild cognitive impairment; normative data; reliability; scoring systems

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HEALTHY AGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HEALTHY AGING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 85029351794     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191116632586     Document Type: Article

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