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Six-Item Screener to Identify Cognitive Impairment Among Potential Subjects for Clinical Research

Medical Care · 2002 · Vol. 40(9) · pp. 771–781

Abstract

The six-item screener is a brief and reliable instrument for identifying subjects with cognitive impairment and its diagnostic properties are comparable to the full MMSE. It can be administered by telephone or face-to-face interview and is easily scored by a simple summation of errors.

Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchHealth disparities and outcomesDementiaClinical Dementia RatingCohortCohort studyMedicineCognitionRating scaleCognitive testGerontologyPsychology

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AgedBlack or African AmericanCognition DisordersDementiaFemaleHumansIndianaMaleMass ScreeningROC CurveSensitivity and SpecificityUrban PopulationCohort StudiesPrevalence
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