Variability of the Mini-Mental State Examination in dementia
| Autor: | Lee Kaiser, P. Murali Doraiswamy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Psychometrics Neuropsychological Tests behavioral disciplines and activities law.invention Developmental psychology Double-Blind Method Randomized controlled trial Predictive Value of Tests law mental disorders medicine Humans Dementia Aged Aged 80 and over Observer Variation Mini–Mental State Examination medicine.diagnostic_test Confounding Confounding Factors Epidemiologic Cognition Middle Aged medicine.disease Clinical trial Physical therapy Neurology (clinical) Alzheimer's disease Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neurology. 54:1538-1539 |
| ISSN: | 1526-632X 0028-3878 |
| DOI: | 10.1212/wnl.54.7.1538-a |
| Popis: | The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is widely used to screen elderly subjects for cognitive impairment.1 Grigoletto et al.2 highlight the importance of accounting for age, gender, and education while interpreting the MMSE results. The MMSE is also increasingly being used to monitor progression and treatment response in mild-to-moderate AD. We used data from 1,648 outpatients with dementia to study the short-term variability in total MMSE score. There were 1,648 participants in two identical multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, 26-week drug trials for AD. All subjects met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, revised 3rd ed. (DSM-III-R) criteria for primary … |
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