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Interpretation of mini‐mental state examination scores in community‐dwelling elderly and geriatric neuropsychiatry patients
Author(s) -
Iverson Grant L.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(1998100)13:10<661::aid-gps838>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - neuropsychiatry , geriatric psychiatry , normative , psychiatry , dementia , psychology , geriatrics , population , mini–mental state examination , medicine , gerontology , disease , cognition , cognitive impairment , philosophy , environmental health , epistemology , pathology
The purpose of this article is to provide data for advanced interpretation of MMSE performance in community‐dwelling elderly persons and in geriatric neuropsychiatry inpatients. Age‐ and education‐corrected cutoff scores, standard errors of measurement and standard errors of difference were computed using previously published population normative data (Crum et al ., 1993). The supplementary normative table provides a means of interpreting MMSE performance at a single point in time, or at two testing intervals. These same scores were calculated for a sample of 248 elderly inpatients from the geriatric psychiatry division of a psychiatric hospital. Clinical examples are provided.Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.