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Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire as a Screening Test for Dementia and Delirium Among the Elderly
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Pfeiffer's Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) is a brief screening test for organic brain syndromes. The validity of the SPMSQ was evaluated in a random sample of 119 community residents and 282 consecutively admitted medical inpatients. The SPMSQ proved to be a sensitive and specific screening test for moderate to severe dementia both in the community and hospital. Using the cut‐off point (number of errors accepted) of three errors, the sensitivity of the test was 86.2% and the specificity 99.0% among medical inpatients. The percentages in the community sample were 66.7% and 100%, respectively. The validity of the SPMSQ was not as good for delirium because of its variable clinical picture. For screening purposes lower cut‐off points than previously recommended should be used: three errors for dementia and two errors for delirium. Among Finnish elderly people it was not necessary to use correction for education in the SPMSQ.
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- Erkinjuntti, T., Sulkava, R., Wikström, J., & Autio, L.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1987-05
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 412-416
- ISSN
- 0002-8614 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5415
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- W2015239283
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- 249
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- 2
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- 3.72
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- journal article
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- en
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- closed
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