Cognitive Screening Instruments: A Practical Approach - Softcover

 
9783319831343: Cognitive Screening Instruments: A Practical Approach

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This illustrated overview of common cognitive screening instruments includes instructions on use, strengths and weaknesses, time required for administration and scoring rules, such as how to correct for variations in the patient’s age or education and more.

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AJ Larner is a consultant neurologist at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK.

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This revised and updated second edition provides a practical and structured overview of some of the most commonly used and easily available cognitive screening instruments applicable in the outpatient clinic and bedside setting. It now includes additional chapters on AD8 and also methodological aspects of systematic cognitive screening instrument assessment from the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group.

Expert authors from around the world equip the reader with clear instructions on the usage of each screening instrument, its strengths and weaknesses, the time required for administration, and rules on scoring, such as how to correct for variations in the patient s age or education, and suggested cutoff scores.

"Cognitive Screening Instruments: A Practical Approach, Second Edition" is aimed at both clinicians and professionals in disciplines allied to medicine who are called upon to assess patients with possible cognitive disorders, including neurologists, old age psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, primary care physicians, dementia support workers, and members of memory assessment teams."

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ISBN 10:  3319447742 ISBN 13:  9783319447742
Verlag: Springer, 2016
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