Should the Mini Mental State Examination be used to monitor dementia treatments?
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.
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Branton
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Holmes
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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