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| Screening for dementia in the outpatient setting: the Time and Change test | | Author(s) | Tanya E Froelich, Julie T Robison, Sharon K Inouye |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 46, no 12, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 1506-1511 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Screening ; Out-patients ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Despite the high prevalence of dementia among older people, studies have shown that it is frequently unrecognised by physicians in outpatient settings. This study aimed to develop and validate the Time and Change (T&C) test, a simple standardised method for detecting dementia, in two outpatient clinics at an urban teaching hospital. Results showed that the T&C had a sensitivity of 63%, specificity of 96%, a negative predictive value of 93%, a positive predictive value of 77%, and test-retest and inter-observer reliability agreement rates of 95% and 100%, respectively. When T&C results were added to the physician's documentation of dementia, the number of missed cases decreased from 44% to 19%, and the number of overall cases decreased by 100%. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990304402 A |
| Classmark | EA: 3V: LFB: 7T |
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