ESTABLISHING THE LIMITS OF THE MINI-MENTAL STATE - EXAMINATION OF SUBTESTS

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作者
FEHER, EP
MAHURIN, RK
DOODY, RS
COOKE, N
SIMS, J
PIROZZOLO, FJ
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[1] VET AFFAIRS MED CTR,HOUSTON,TX
[2] BAYLOR COLL MED,HOUSTON,TX 77030
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10.1001/archneur.1992.00530250091022
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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It has been suggested that the Mini-Mental State examination can be used to examine a patient's cognitive profile. We therefore examined the validity of Mini-Mental State subtests and individual items. The memory item, attention-concentration items, and constructional item had satisfactory sensitivity-specificity and correlated significantly with scores on neuropsychological tests. In contrast, four of the five Mini-Mental State language items had very low sensitivity, and three of five failed to correlate with neuropsy-chological test scores. These findings establish limits with regard to the ability of the Mini-Mental State to generate a cognitive profile. Our data also provide information regarding validity, difficulty level, and optimal cutoff scores for widely used mental status tasks.
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