Will use of the Six-Item Cognitive Impairment Test help to close the dementia diagnosis gap?

DemTect: a new, sensitive cognitive scre

DemTect: a new, sensitive cognitive screening test to support the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early dementia

✍ E. Kalbe; J. Kessler; P. Calabrese; R. Smith; A. P. Passmore; M. Brand; R. Bullo 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 107 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## Objectives To design a new, highly sensitive psychometric screening to identify patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and patients with dementia in the early stages of the disease. ## Methods Five tasks were included in the DemTect: a word list, a number transcoding task,