Cognitive assessment in elderly patients admitted to hospital: the relationship between the shortened version of the Abbreviated Mental Test and the Abbreviated Mental Test and Mini-Mental State Examination

Introduction The Royal College of Physicians and British Geriatrics Society recommend the use of the Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) in all elderly patients admitted to hospital. However, published evidence suggests that the AMT is being used neither routinely nor correctly. A shortened version of the...

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Published inClinical rehabilitation Vol. 14; no. 6; pp. 608 - 610
Main Authors Swain, David G, O'Brien, Alicia G, Nightingale, Peter G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.12.2000
Turpin
Arnold
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Aged
Assessment
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition Disorders - diagnosis
Cognitive functioning
Elderly people
Geriatric Assessment
Geriatrics
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental Status Schedule
Middle Aged
Predictive Value of Tests
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Human
Clinical test
Hospitalization
Cognitive Assessment Test
Elderly
Mental activity
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Summary:Introduction The Royal College of Physicians and British Geriatrics Society recommend the use of the Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) in all elderly patients admitted to hospital. However, published evidence suggests that the AMT is being used neither routinely nor correctly. A shortened version of the Abbreviated Mental Test, the AMT4 was therefore developed to encourage a more widespread, although simpler, assessment of cognition. In a series of elderly predominantly outpatients6 the AMT4 showed a strong relationship with the AMT.
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ISSN:0269-2155
1477-0873
DOI:10.1191/0269215500cr368oa