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Validity of screening instruments for the detection of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in hospital inpatients: A systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies.
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- Bedside cognitive screening to detect dementia and predict poor outcomes in hospitals.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Pulling Back the Curtain on Hospital Dementia Detection: Validation of the Informant-Based Clinical Dementia Rating.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Neuropsychological Assessment for Early Detection and Diagnosis of Dementia: Current Knowledge and New Insights.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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- Can Variables From the Electronic Health Record Identify Delirium at Bedside?Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2022Article
- The Role of Brief Global Cognitive Tests and Neuropsychological Expertise in the Detection and Differential Diagnosis of Dementia.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
- Screening for Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease Using Optimized Feature Sets and Machine Learning.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2021Article
- Speech Quality Feature Analysis for Classification of Depression and Dementia Patients.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Is Barthel Index Suitable for Assessing Activities of Daily Living in Patients With Dementia?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Optimizing scalable approaches for early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Article
- Natural language processing techniques for studying language in pathological ageing: A scoping review.International journal of language & communication disordersArticle
- Incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment, Conversion to Probable Dementia, and Mortality.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasArticle
- Applicability of tactile memory examination as an option to visual- and verbal-based batteries.Dementia & neuropsychologiaArticle
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Abstract
introductionAs the population ages, Alzheimer's disease and other subtypes of dementia are becoming increasingly prevalent. However, in recent years, diagnosis has often been delayed or not made at all. Thus, improving the rate of diagnosis has become an integral part of national dementia strategies. Although screening for dementia remains controversial, the case is strong for screening for dementia and other forms of cognitive impairment in hospital inpatients. For this reason, the objective of this systematic review was to provide clinicians, who wish to implement screening, an up-to-date choice of cognitive tests with the most extensive evidence base for the use in elective hospital inpatients.
methodsFor this systematic review, PubMed, PsycINFO and Cochrane Library were searched by using a multi-concept search strategy. The databases were accessed on April 10, 2019. All cross-sectional studies that utilized brief, multi-domain cognitive tests as index test and a reference standard diagnosis of dementia or mild cognitive impairment as comparator were included. Only studies conducted in the hospital setting, sampling from unselected, elective inpatients older than 64 were considered.
resultsSix studies met the inclusion criteria, with a total of 2112 participants. Diagnostic accuracy data for the Six-Item Cognitive Impairment Test, Cognitive Performance Scale, Clock-Drawing Test, Mini-Mental Status Examination, and Time & Change test were extracted and descriptively analyzed. Clinical and methodological heterogeneity between the studies precluded performing a meta-analysis. DISCUSSION: This review found only a small number of instruments and was not able to recommend a single best instrument for use in a hospital setting. Although it was not possible to estimate the pooled operating characteristics, the included description of instrument characteristics, the descriptive analysis of performance measures, and the critical evaluation of the reporting studies may contribute to clinician's choice of the screening instrument that fits best their purpose.
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