The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the most widely used screening test for impairment of cognitive function. Developed by American psychiatrist Marshal F. Folstein and colleagues, this brief and easy-to-administer test is used to identify persons with dementia. Personality functioning and ps...
Mental Status ScheduleNeuropsychological Tests [*standards]Primary Health CareRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicThe Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a cognitive test that is commonly used as part of the evaluation for possible dementia. To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the Mini-Mental ...
Definition (NCI)A brief quantitative test used for assessing cognitive function in adults. ConceptsDiagnostic Procedure(T060) SnomedCT273617000 LNCLP156457-6, LP156471-7, MTHU044491 EnglishMMSE - Mini-mental state exam,Mini mental state examination,mini-mental status exam,mini-mental status exam (...
those of other scales that have subsequently been developed with theintentof replacing it with a presumably better test. But it is an aid to the clinician, and too much should not be expected of it. A comprehensive diagnosis requires a fullmental status examination, history,physical examination,...
(Halstead1943). Alternatively, the MMSE is a structured assessment of mental status/global cognitive functioning that is very brief, taking approximately 5–10 min to administer. The MMSE measures cognitive functioning in the domains of orientation, learning and memory, attention and calculation, ...
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for the detection of Alzheimer's dementia and other dementias in asymptomatic and previously clinically unevaluated pe... This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Diagnostic test accuracy). The objectives are as follows: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of...
2.Mini-MentalStateExamScoring: TheofficialtotalscorefortheMMSE(i.e.thescoresusedforstatistical analyses)arecomputergenerated.Examinersrecordindividualtestitemscores ontheMMSEtestform.Theoneexceptionis"WORLD"whereexaminers recordtheresponseofsubjectsintheexactorderthatitisgivenbythesubject. ...
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was developed in 1975 as a brief test for the quantitative assessment of cognitive impairment in adults. It has since been widely used by physicians throughout the world. Its main use is for screening for cognitive impairment, which is a significant caus...
The Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS) was developed by Teng and Chui (1987) and is an expanded version of the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) designed to increase the MMSE’s sensitivity. The 3MS incorporates four added test items, more graded scoring, and some other minor changes...
(2003), in a memory clinic study, have found that the bedside screening test “Short Test of Mental Status” (STMS), which covers a broader range of cognitive abilities than the MMSE, is more accurate in the identification of MCI. However, the sensitivity and specificity of the tests used...