An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke

Objectives: to assess the sensitivity and specificity of a screening battery for detecting cognitive impairment after stroke. Design: a randomized controlled trial. Methods: stroke patients were recruited from hospitals in three centres. Patients were screened for cognitive impairment on the...

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Main Authors: Blake, Holly, McKinney, Michelle, Treece, Karen, Lee, Elizabeth, Lincoln, Nadina
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Published: Oxford University Press 2002
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39357/
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author Blake, Holly
McKinney, Michelle
Treece, Karen
Lee, Elizabeth
Lincoln, Nadina
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McKinney, Michelle
Treece, Karen
Lee, Elizabeth
Lincoln, Nadina
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description Objectives: to assess the sensitivity and specificity of a screening battery for detecting cognitive impairment after stroke. Design: a randomized controlled trial. Methods: stroke patients were recruited from hospitals in three centres. Patients were screened for cognitive impairment on the Mini‐Mental State Examination, the Sheffield Screening Test for Acquired Language Disorders and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices and received a further battery of assessments of cognitive function. Sensitivity and specificity values were calculated for the three screening measures for overall conclusions regarding cognitive impairment reached from a comprehensive assessment. Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves were plotted. Conclusion: the Mini‐Mental State Examination was not a useful screen for memory problems or overall cognitive impairment after stroke. The Sheffield Screening Test for Acquired Language Disorders was an appropriate screen for language problems. The Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices was appropriate as a screen for perceptual problems and visual inattention but not for executive deficits.
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spelling nottingham-393572020-05-04T16:25:42Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39357/ An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke Blake, Holly McKinney, Michelle Treece, Karen Lee, Elizabeth Lincoln, Nadina Objectives: to assess the sensitivity and specificity of a screening battery for detecting cognitive impairment after stroke. Design: a randomized controlled trial. Methods: stroke patients were recruited from hospitals in three centres. Patients were screened for cognitive impairment on the Mini‐Mental State Examination, the Sheffield Screening Test for Acquired Language Disorders and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices and received a further battery of assessments of cognitive function. Sensitivity and specificity values were calculated for the three screening measures for overall conclusions regarding cognitive impairment reached from a comprehensive assessment. Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves were plotted. Conclusion: the Mini‐Mental State Examination was not a useful screen for memory problems or overall cognitive impairment after stroke. The Sheffield Screening Test for Acquired Language Disorders was an appropriate screen for language problems. The Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices was appropriate as a screen for perceptual problems and visual inattention but not for executive deficits. Oxford University Press 2002-11-31 Article PeerReviewed Blake, Holly, McKinney, Michelle, Treece, Karen, Lee, Elizabeth and Lincoln, Nadina (2002) An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke. Age and Ageing, 31 (6). pp. 451-456. ISSN 1468-2834 Stroke Cognitive impairment Sensitivity Screening http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/31.6.451 doi:10.1093/ageing/31.6.451 doi:10.1093/ageing/31.6.451
spellingShingle Stroke
Cognitive impairment
Sensitivity
Screening
Blake, Holly
McKinney, Michelle
Treece, Karen
Lee, Elizabeth
Lincoln, Nadina
An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke
title An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke
title_full An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke
title_fullStr An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke
title_full_unstemmed An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke
title_short An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke
title_sort evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke
topic Stroke
Cognitive impairment
Sensitivity
Screening
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