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ArticleSao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina

Screening for cognitive impairment among individuals aged 60 years or over: scoping review.

Patrícia Regina Piedade Feichtenberger, Maura Regina Laureano Rocha, Maria Eduarda Dos Santos Puga, José Eduardo Martinez

Open access · diamondAbstract readScoping Review
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Article in Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Patrícia Regina Piedade FeichtenbergerMD. Neurologist and Master's Degree Student, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Sorocaba (SP), Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-5104-3620
Maura Regina Laureano RochaMD, PhD. Speech Therapist, Audiology Specialist and Technical director, FONEC - Fonoaudiologia e Neurociência, Itapetininga (SP), Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-2342-7555
Maria Eduarda Dos Santos PugaMD, PhD. Librarian, Information specialist at Cochrane Center in Brazil, São Paulo (SP), Brazil; and Director, Library Network, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-8470-861X
José Eduardo MartinezMD, PhD. Rheumatologist and Full Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Sorocaba (SP), Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-3864-6822
Cochrane · BRPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGrowth in aging of the population has led to increasing numbers of elderly people presenting cognitive impairment and evolution to dementia. There is still no consensus within primary care on the best strategy for screening for cognitive impairment among elderly people. Standardization of a simple but reasonably accurate instrument for a brief cognitive test, in primary care environments, would enable healthcare professionals to identify individuals who require a more in-depth assessment of cognition.

objectivesTo investigate the instruments used by healthcare professionals in studies conducted worldwide and ascertain the most suitable instruments for screening for cognitive impairment among individuals aged 60 years or over, in the Brazilian population. DESIGN AND

settingScoping review developed at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil.

methodA systematic search of the literature was conducted for primary studies using instruments to screen for cognitive impairment among individuals aged 60 years or over, in the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central and LILACS databases.

resultsA total of 983 articles were identified by two independent reviewers, from which 49 were selected for full-text reading, based on the criteria defined for this review. From this, 16 articles adhering to the theme of screening for cognitive impairment among the elderly were selected for in-depth analysis.

conclusionThe Mini-Mental State Examination was the instrument most cited in these studies. The Pfeffer Functional Activities Questionnaire and the Verbal Fluency Test (semantic category) present characteristics favoring further studies, for testing as screening instruments for cognitive impairment among elderly people in Brazil.

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Cognitive DysfunctionDementiaAgedBrazilHumansMass ScreeningNeuropsychological Tests

Identifiers

PMID34287510
PMCPMC9632536
OpenAlexW3185305017

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