title: [The Mini Mental Status Examination. Normative data and a comparison of a 12-item and 20-item version in a sample survey of community-based elderly].
abstract: The results of a study on the comparison of the original 20-item Mini-Mental State Examination with a shortened 12-item version as a brief screening test for cognitive impairments in a community based older sample are presented. The scores on the MMSE decrease with higher ages and lower levels of education. The results show that a threshold value of 24 on the MMSE-20 (Cohen's kappa .70), which supports previous Norwegian findings. In case of the identification of older people with severe cognitive impairments -threshold value 17 or 18 on the MMSE-20-, we found a corresponding threshold on the MMSE-12 of 7 (Cohen's kappa .87 and .91, respectively). Although the Norwegian researchers made no direct comparison between the MMSE-20 and MMSE-12 for these lower thresholds, a threshold 7 on the MMSE-12 resulted in a lower level of misclassifications of cognitively impaired patients by a psychogeriatrician compared to a threshold of 18 on the MMSE-20. It may be concluded that the MMSE-12, which is simpler to use and takes less time, has the same diagnostic properties as a screening tool for mild and severe cognitive impairments.
authors.affiliation: Noordelijk Centrum voor Gezondheidsvraagstukken, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Kempen
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Brilman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ormel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
vernacular_title: De Mini-Mental State Examination. Normeringsgegevens en een vergelijking van een 12- en 20-item versie in een steekproef ouderen uit de bevolking.