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ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2014

Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments.

Teresa C Castanho, Liliana Amorim, Joseph Zihl, Joana A Palha, Nuno Sousa, Nadine C Santos

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03609658 (Integrated Approach to Patient and Family Engagement for Advance Care Planning for Vulnerable Older Adult Within an Accountable Care Organization), which is not on this map. Cited by 81 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
81citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03609658 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

Integrated Approach to Patient and Family Engagement for Advance Care Planning for Vulnerable Older Adult Within an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)

TypeinterventionalSponsorWake Forest University Health SciencesRan2018 to 2019Enrolled146ConditionsAdvance Care PlanningArmsNurse Navigator Pathway, Usual Care
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Tele-neuropsychological assessment tools in Italy: a systematic review on psychometric properties and usability.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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  3. Improving medication adherence and outcomes in adult kidney transplant patients using a personal systems approach: SystemCHANGE™ results of the MAGIC randomized clinical trial.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2020
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  5. Validation of the Italian version of the In-Person Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (IP-TICS).Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  9. Telephone-based cognitive screening in neurodegenerative MCI and dementia: preliminary findings from the TBCS Study.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  10. Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  12. Perceived spousal similarity in outlook on life: implications for later-life well-being.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025
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  13. Cognitive dysfunction, psychiatric distress, and functional decline after liver transplantation.Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society · 2025
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  18. User Experience of a (Semi-) Automated Cognitive Phone-Based Assessment Within a Memory Clinic Population.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025
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21 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Teresa C CastanhoSchool of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Minho Braga, Portugal ; PT Government Associate Laboratory, ICVS/3B's Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.
Liliana AmorimSchool of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Minho Braga, Portugal ; PT Government Associate Laboratory, ICVS/3B's Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.
Joseph ZihlDepartment of Psychology-Neuropsychology, University of Munich Munich, Germany.
Joana A PalhaSchool of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Minho Braga, Portugal ; PT Government Associate Laboratory, ICVS/3B's Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.
Nuno SousaSchool of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Minho Braga, Portugal ; PT Government Associate Laboratory, ICVS/3B's Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.
Nadine C SantosSchool of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Minho Braga, Portugal ; PT Government Associate Laboratory, ICVS/3B's Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.
University of Minho · PTInstitut für Urheber- und Medienrecht · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The decline of cognitive function in old age is a great challenge for modern society. The simultaneous increase in dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases justifies a growing need for accurate and valid cognitive assessment instruments. Although in-person testing is considered the most effective and preferred administration mode of assessment, it can pose not only a research difficulty in reaching large and diverse population samples, but it may also limit the assessment and follow-up of individuals with either physical or health limitations or reduced motivation. Therefore, telephone-based cognitive screening instruments can be an alternative and attractive strategy to in-person assessments. In order to give a current view of the state of the art of telephone-based tools for cognitive assessment in aging, this review highlights some of the existing instruments with particular focus on data validation, cognitive domains assessed, administration time and instrument limitations and advantages. From the review of the literature, performed using the databases EBSCO, Science Direct and PubMed, it was possible to verify that while telephone-based tools are useful in research and clinical practice, providing a promising approach, the methodologies still need refinement in the validation steps, including comparison with either single instruments or neurocognitive test batteries, to improve specificity and sensitivity to validly detect subtle changes in cognition that may precede cognitive impairment.

Indexed as

cognitiondementiaearly detectionneurocognitive impairmentrapid-assessment toolstelephone-based screening

Identifiers

PMID24611046
PMCPMC3933813
OpenAlexW2126581908

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