title: A Summary Score for the Framingham Heart Study Neuropsychological Battery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To calculate three summary scores of the Framingham Heart Study neuropsychological battery and determine which score best differentiates between subjects classified as having normal cognition, test-based impaired learning and memory, test-based multidomain impairment, and dementia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The final sample included 2,503 participants. Three summary scores were assessed: (a) composite score that provided equal weight to each subtest, (b) composite score that provided equal weight to each cognitive domain assessed by the neuropsychological battery, and (c) abbreviated score comprised of subtests for learning and memory. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to determine which summary score best differentiated between the four cognitive states.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The summary score that provided equal weight to each subtest best differentiated between the four cognitive states.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A summary score that provides equal weight to each subtest is an efficient way to utilize all of the cognitive data collected by a neuropsychological battery.
authors: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA brdowner@utmb.edu.
authors: Brian
authors: B
authors: Downer
authors: University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
authors: David W
authors: DW
authors: Fardo
authors: University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
authors: Frederick A
authors: FA
authors: Schmitt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: cognition; dementia; mild cognitive impairment