The MEAMS (Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State) is a relatively new scale specifically developed to detect intellectual impairment secondary to organic brain dysfunction in the elderly. In this study the MEAMS was compared with the MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examination), a widely known and co
Prospective comparison of the prognostic utility of the Mini Mental State Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in patients with brain metastases
β Scribed by Robert Olson; Scott Tyldesley; Hannah Carolan; Maureen Parkinson; Taruna Chhanabhai; Michael McKenzie
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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