Objective. The principal aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the performance of a Gujarati version of the MMSE as a screening instrument for dementia. The eect of ethnicity on MMSE performance was also examined. Design. Two-stage cross-cultural survey. Setting. Elderly immigrant Gujarati and B
The Itel-MMSE: an Italian telephone version of the Mini-Mental State Examination
β Scribed by Tiziana Metitieri; Cristina Geroldi; Alessandra Pezzini; Giovanni B. Frisoni; Angelo Bianchetti; Marco Trabucchi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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