Titre : | Validity of the Clock-Drawing Test as a screening tool for cognitive impairment in the elderly. (2004) |
Auteurs : | Yuji NISHIWAKI ; Elizabeth BREEZE ; Christopher-J BULPITT ; Astrid-E FLETCHER ; Ruth Peters ; Liam SMEETH ; University of London. Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine. Faculty of Medicine. Section of Care of the Elderly. London. GBR ; University of London. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Centre for Ageing and Public Health. London. GBR |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 160, n° 8, 2004) |
Pagination : | 797-807 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Validité ; Personne âgée ; Homme ; Fonction cognitive ; Dépistage ; Prévention santé ; Mortalité ; Epidémiologie ; Sensibilité ; Spécificité |
Résumé : |
[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS IR0xz1Ih. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The authors studied the validity of the Clock-Drawing Test (CDT) in comparison with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the association between the CDT and mortality in a large general population sample of persons aged 75 years or more. Data were obtained from the MRC Trial of the Assessment and Management of Older People in the Community. Baseline assessments were conducted between 1995 and 1999 in the United Kingdom. A total of 13,557 subjects with both CDT and MMSE scores were included in the analysis. The median follow-up period was 4.7 years. The sensitivity and specificity of the CDT for detecting moderate-to-severe cognitive impairment (MMSE score |