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
Reliability and validity of the mini-mental state exam in neurologically intact elderly
β Scribed by Maura Mitrushina; Paul Satz
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 459 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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