A simple score system for clock drawing in patients with Alzheimerʼs disease
Shua-Haim, Joshua; Koppuzha, G.; Shua-Haim, Vered; Gross, Joel; Shua-Haim, Joshua, MedWise Center, Jersey Shore Medical Center and The Medical Center of Ocean County, New Jersey; UMONJ-SOM, Centerfor Aging, Stratford, New Jersey; Gross, Joel, MedWise Center, Affiliated with Jersey Shore Medical Center and The Medical Center of Ocean County, New Jersey
Журнал:
American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
Дата:
1997
Аннотация:
Objective: To develop a simple clock drawing score system for patients with Alzheimerʼs disease, that correlates with the MMSE (Folstein Mini Mental Status Examination).<sup>1</sup>Design: A retrospective analysis of 88 patients with the diagnosis of Alzheimerʼs diseaseSetting: Outpatient Memory Disorder Institute of a large community teaching hospital.Measurements: MMSE score and two different clock drawing ratings. The MMSE and the clock drawing scoring were performed by different raters. We present a “simple clock scoring system” and compared it with a previously published scoring system by Sunderland et al,<sup>2</sup> referred to as the standard score system.Results: There is a strong correlation between the “new score system” and the standard scoring (Pearsons Correlation Coefficient r = 0.91, p < 0.001). However, when both systems were evaluated in a multivariate linear regression analysis, the “ simple score system “ was a significant predictor of Folstein MMSE (P < 0.01), while the standard scoring system was not.Conclusion: The “simple score system” is an easy to use, accurate predictor of the MMSE score, in patients with the diagnosis of Alzheimerʼs disease.
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