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