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Screening for dementia in an Irish community sample using MMSE
— a comparison of norm-adjusted versus fixed cut-points | | Author(s) | Breda Cullen, Sabina Fahy, Conal J Cunningham |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 20, no 4, April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 371-376 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Screening ; Living in the community ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Ireland. |
| Annotation | When screening for dementia using the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), locally derived norms yield better accuracy than published norms or the traditional <24 cut-point. In an Irish community setting, the local screening results were obtained with a <23 cut-point. These results are based on a study of 1,115 people aged 60+ (mean age 74.8, and 68% female) who were assessed in their own homes using MMSE and the AGECAT diagnostic system for mental illness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050516213 A |
| Classmark | EA: 3V: K4: DA:4C: 763 |
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