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Mini-Cognitive Assessment Instrument

Aka: Mini-Cognitive Assessment Instrument, Mini-Cog

Indications
1. Dementia Screening
2. Clock Drawing Test
Questions
1. Step 1: Patient repeats 3 unrelated words (e.g. ball, dog, television)
2. Step 2: Patient draws a clock face showing 11:10
  1. Correct response is a circle with 2 hands - one on the 11 and the other on the 2
3. Step 3: Patient recalls the 3 words from step 1. One point for each item remembered correctly
Interpretation: Positive Screen
1. Abnormal Clock Drawing Test and less than 3 items recalled correctly OR
2. No items recalled correctly
Efficacy
1. Test Sensitivity: 76%
2. Test Specificity: 89%
References
1. Borson (2000) Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 15(11):1021-27

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This page was written by Scott Moses, MD, last revised on 2/5/2012 and last published on 5/14/2013.

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