Validity of the Mini-Mental State Examination-2 in Diagnosing Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Patients Visiting an Outpatient Clinic in the Netherlands
This study examined the utility of the recently published MMSE-2:SV in detecting cognitive impairment. We used receiver operating characteristics to test the discriminative power of the MMSE-2:SV for distinguishing between older adults without mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia (n=67) and patients with MCI (n=76) or dementia (n=79). The results show that the MMSE-2:SV had excellent discriminative ability in distinguishing older controls from patients with dementia, with cut-off scores of 26 and 27 (max=30) yielding appropriate sensitivity (0.810 and 0.924, respectively) and specificit... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ; volume 34, issue 3, page 278-281 ; ISSN 0893-0341 |
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Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
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Schlagwörter: | Psychiatry and Mental health / Geriatrics and Gerontology / Gerontology / Clinical Psychology |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26832369 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/wad.0000000000000403 |