Mini-Cog for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias within a primary care setting.

CONCLUSIONS: There is a limited number of studies evaluating the accuracy of the Mini-Cog for the diagnosis of dementia in primary care settings. Given the small number of studies, the wide range in estimates of the accuracy of the Mini-Cog, and methodological limitations identified in most of the studies, at the present time there is insufficient evidence to recommend that the Mini-Cog be used as a screening test for dementia in primary care. Further studies are required to determine the accuracy of Mini-Cog in primary care and whether this tool has sufficient diagnostic test accuracy to be useful as a screening test in this setting. PMID: 29470861 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29470861?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - February 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Seitz DP, Chan CC, Newton HT, Gill SS, Herrmann N, Smailagic N, Nikolaou V, Fage BA Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research