title: Should the Mini Mental State Examination be used to monitor dementia treatments?
abstract: The test-retest and inter-rater reliabilities of the Mini Mental State Examination were found inadequate for detecting small changes in cognition, making this test inappropriate for assessing treatment response in Alzheimer's disease.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bowie
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Branton
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Holmes
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results