... of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2) was used to evaluate methodological quality. Results: Of the 144 articles returned, six studies and 11 VSP tests met review inclusion criteria. Four tests demonstrated both sensitivity and specificity values above 80%. A computerised 3D Visual Task demonstrated the highest...

... instrument Dementia Diagnostic accuracy Speech-language assessment The language network can be selectively affected by neurodegeneration, leading to progressive language dysfunction (primary progressive aphasia [PPA]). After the seminal description of slowly progressive aphasia by Mesulam...

... improve diagnostic accuracy when screening for dementia in an Arabic-speaking population with low levels of literacy. Methods: Based on data from 225 elderly participant and informant dyads, the screening performances of the two instruments were compared and three methods for combining them...

... the effects of using these alternative methods of establishing cutoffs. Methods: Datasets from three pragmatic diagnostic accuracy studies which examined the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R), the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and the Test...

... not previously been validated in multicultural populations outside of Australia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the RUDAS in a multicultural sample of patients referred to Danish memory clinics. Methods: Data were collected from 137 consecutive patients (34 with an immigrant...

... with future dementia diagnosis. The best cutoff for raw change in MMSE total score to predict dementia was –1 point (sensitivity = 48%, specificity = 67%, relative risk = 1.6). With the RCI + regression to the mean, the diagnostic accuracy was moderate (sensitivity = 61%, specificity = 72%, relative risk...

...Yolande A.L. Pijnenburg; Jacqueline L. Mulder; John C. van Swieten; Bernard M.J. Uitdehaag; Martijn Stevens; Philip Scheltens; Cees Jonker Background/Aims: The goal of the present study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the core diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) [Neary...

... area for diagnosis of dementia was 0.996 (95% CI 0.992–1), sensitivity 100%, specificity 95.1%, and diagnostic accuracy 96.8%. All these parameters were higher than those of other cognitive screening tests. Dementia explained 54.9% of the variance of the 7MS, and age 3.1%; sex and education did...

...K.W. Kim; D.Y. Lee; J.H. Jhoo; J.C. Youn; Y.J. Suh; Y.H. Jun; E.H. Seo; J.I. Woo To compare the diagnostic accuracies of the Revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale (HDS-R) and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) for Alzheimer’s diseases (AD), we administered them simultaneously to 82 AD patients and 82...