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| Can an informant questionnaire be used to predict the development of dementia in medical inpatients? | | Author(s) | Beverley Louis, Daniel Harwood, Tony Hope |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 11, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp 941-945 |
| Keywords | In-patients ; Medical wards ; Cognitive impairment ; Dementia ; Screening ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The authors sought to determine whether older medical inpatients without dementia who score >3.31 on the short form of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) are at an increased risk of developing dementia. 29 patients with IQCODE score of >3.31 without dementia and 29 age- and sex-matched controls, from an original sample of 201 medical inpatients over 65 were examined 17-24 months after original assessment. Interviews took place in patients' homes, but all subjects had been recruited while medical inpatients in a general hospital 17-24 months previously. Ten of the study group and one control had developed dementia since the original assessment, indicating that those with an admission IQCODE score of >3.31 had increased risk of developing dementia. However, the study was small with sources of possible bias, and requires replication with a larger sample. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000114224 A |
| Classmark | LF7: LD4: E4: EA: 3V: 4C |
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