TY - JOUR
T1 - The Brief Cognitive Status Examination (BCSE)
T2 - Comparing diagnostic utility and equating scores to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
AU - Hilsabeck, Robin C.
AU - Holdnack, James A.
AU - Cullum, C. Munro
AU - Drozdick, Lisa Whipple
AU - Edelstein, Barry
AU - Fiske, Amy
AU - Lacritz, Laura
AU - McCoy, Karin J M
AU - Wahlstrom, Dustin
PY - 2015/8
Y1 - 2015/8
N2 - The study purpose was to compare the diagnostic utility of the Brief Cognitive Status Exam (BCSE) to that of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and to develop equated scorest of acilitate comparisons. One hundred and eighty-two patients underwent cognitive evaluation and were placed into three groups: dementia (DEM), cognitive impairment, nodementia (CIND), and no cognitiveim pairment (NCI). One hundred and eighty-two healthy controls from the BCSE standardization sample served as a comparison group. On both measures, the DEM group obtained significantly lower scores than the other two groups, and the CIND group scored significantly lower than the NCI group. The BCSE was more sensitive in all clinical groups, although at extremely low scores, the two tests displayed similar sensitivity. Results indicate the BCSE has diagnostic utility as a cognitive screening measure in a mixed clinical sample and is more sensitive at detecting cognitive impairment, particularly milder levels, than the MMSE.
AB - The study purpose was to compare the diagnostic utility of the Brief Cognitive Status Exam (BCSE) to that of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and to develop equated scorest of acilitate comparisons. One hundred and eighty-two patients underwent cognitive evaluation and were placed into three groups: dementia (DEM), cognitive impairment, nodementia (CIND), and no cognitiveim pairment (NCI). One hundred and eighty-two healthy controls from the BCSE standardization sample served as a comparison group. On both measures, the DEM group obtained significantly lower scores than the other two groups, and the CIND group scored significantly lower than the NCI group. The BCSE was more sensitive in all clinical groups, although at extremely low scores, the two tests displayed similar sensitivity. Results indicate the BCSE has diagnostic utility as a cognitive screening measure in a mixed clinical sample and is more sensitive at detecting cognitive impairment, particularly milder levels, than the MMSE.
KW - Cognitive screening
KW - Dementia
KW - Mild cognitive impairment
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U2 - 10.1093/arclin/acv037
DO - 10.1093/arclin/acv037
M3 - Article
C2 - 26085478
AN - SCOPUS:84943627654
SN - 0887-6177
VL - 30
SP - 458
EP - 467
JO - Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
JF - Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
IS - 5
ER -