title: The mental status examination for dementia: a review of practice in a psychiatric hospital.
abstract: The mental status examinations of 63 patients with a hospital discharge diagnosis of dementia were reviewed. The examination and documentation of most areas of cognitive function were found to be incomplete in the majority of cases. The need for a complete examination of cognitive function is discussed in relation to the natural history of dementia and in the context of recent developments in the classification of organic mental disorders.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales