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
The agreement of the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale with the Mini-Mental State Examination
β Scribed by W. Freidl; W.-J. Stronegger; A. Berghold; B. Reinhart; K. Petrovic; R. Schmidt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 36 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.672
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