Test Accuracy of Cognitive Screening Tests for Diagnosis of Dementia and Multidomain Cognitive Impairment in Stroke [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions— Commonly used cognitive screening tools have similar accuracy for detection of dementia/multidomain impairment with no clearly superior test and no evidence that screening tools with longer administration times perform better. MoCA at usual threshold offers short assessment time with high sensitivity but at cost of specificity; adapted cutoffs have improved specificity without sacrificing sensitivity. Our results must be interpreted in the context of modest study numbers: heterogeneity and potential bias.

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Source: Stroke - September 22, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Lees, R., Selvarajah, J., Fenton, C., Pendlebury, S. T., Langhorne, P., Stott, D. J., Quinn, T. J. Tags: Behavioral/psychosocial - stroke, Other diagnostic testing, Behavioral Changes and Stroke Clinical Sciences Source Type: research