Diagnosing dementia with cognitive tests: are demographic corrections useful?

Diagnosing dementia with cognitive tests: are demographic corrections useful?

Diagnostic biases against individuals of advanced age or few years of formal education exist because age and education are commonly related to performance on cognitive tests, thus, demographic corrections for these tests are used. Corrections are complicated, however, by an association between demog...

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Main Author: O'Connell, Megan Eleine
Other Authors: Tuokko, Holly
Language:English
en
Published: 2008
Subjects:
diagnostic accuracy
demographic corrections
dementia
sensitivity
specificity
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences
UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Psychology::Cognitive psychology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/298

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http://hdl.handle.net/1828/298

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