Prediction of survival by the Clifton Assessment Procedures for the Elderly (CAPE).
A sample of 261 elderly patients, most with a diagnosis of dementia, consecutively admitted to a geriatric psychiatry assessment ward, was assessed using the cognitive assessment scale (CAS) and behaviour rating scale (BRS) of CAPE. Scores of patients alive at four follow-up intervals were compared with those of non-survivors. On CAS, survivors scored significantly better at 18- and 48-month follow-up; and better, but not significantly so, at nine- and 36-month follow-up. On BRS, survivors scored significantly better at all four follow-up intervals. Only at 36-month follow-up did the scales predict survival of individual patients more efficiently than did base rates.
Moran
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SM
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, UK.
Cockram
L L
LL
Walker
B
B
McPherson
F M
FM
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000401:mortality* / Q000523:psychology; D003704:Dementia / Q000401:mortality* / Q000523:psychology; D015161:Dementia, Multi-Infarct / Q000401:mortality* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D015996:Survival Rate