Sensitivity and Specificity for Dementia of Population-Based Criteria for Cognitive Impairment: The MoVIES Project

Mary Ganguli, Steven H. Belle, G. Ratcliff, Eric C. Seaberg, F. Jacob Huff, K. von der Porten, Lewis H. Kuller

Journal of Gerontology · 1993 · 151 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Our data support the use of population-based cutpoints over standard cutoff scores, in that the global scale at the conventional cutoff was less sensitive than the battery at the same percentile, and because adequate norms do not exist for tests such as those in the battery.