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Cases of mild dementia in the community: Improving efficacy of case finding by concurrent use of pairs of screening tests
Author(s) -
Hooijer C.,
Jonker C.,
Lindeboom J.
Publication year - 1993
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/gps.930080705
Subject(s) - comparability , dementia , test (biology) , screening test , sampling (signal processing) , medicine , psychology , computer science , pediatrics , mathematics , disease , paleontology , filter (signal processing) , combinatorics , computer vision , biology
In a previous study, combinations of two short screening tests for dementia appeared to have clear advantages over the use of one test both for the efficacy of case detection and for the comparability of studies. In the present study these results were replicated using different sampling rules for the first and second phases of the screening procedure. Preferences for specific test combinations are discussed.