How effective is the Trail Making Test (Parts A and B) in identifying cognitively impaired drivers? | Zendy

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How effective is the Trail Making Test (Parts A and B) in identifying cognitively impaired drivers?

Author(s) -

Bonnie Dobbs,

Sukhwinder S. Shergill

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/aft073

Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , trail making test , predictive validity , predictive power , dementia , positive predicative value , test (biology) , mini–mental state examination , cognition , gerontology , clinical psychology , cognitive impairment , psychiatry , predictive value , paleontology , philosophy , disease , epistemology , biology

he medical community plays an important role in identifying drivers who may no longer be competent to drive due to illnesses such as dementia. Several office-based cognitive screening tools are currently used by the medical community, e.g. Mini-Mental State Examination, Trail Making Test (TMT), to assist in the identification of cognitively impaired (CI) at-risk drivers. However, the predictive validity of these tools is questionable.

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