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- Title
INTERPRETING SUBJECT AND INFORMANT REPORTS OF FUNCTION IN SCREENING FOR DEMENTIA.
- Authors
Wilder, David E.; Gurland, Barry J.; Chen, Jiming; Lantigua, Rafael A.; Killeffer, Eloise H. P.; Katz, Sidney; Encarnación, Priscilla
- Abstract
A related article showed that five widely used screens far dementia predicted criterion diagnosis well with extreme scores, but misclassified many persons when screen scores were intermediate (borderzone). In this article, based on representative samples of community elders from the North Manhattan. Aging Project. information on the subject's functioning was added to intermediate dementia screen scores and found to increase specificity, with sensitivity held constant. Informant reports on the subject's functioning predicted criterion diagnosis somewhat better than did the subject's self-report of functioning.
- Subjects
MANHATTAN (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States; COGNITIVE Abilities Test; DIAGNOSIS of dementia; MEDICAL screening
- Publication
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 1994, Vol 9, Issue 11, p887
- ISSN
0885-6230
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/gps.930091105