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Mental Status Consolidated Screening
Aka: Mental Status Consolidated Screening, Mental Status Quick Exam
- See Also
- Mental Status Screening
- Technique: Validated brief test
- Questions (6 point test)
- Remember 3 objects: Apple, Table, Penny
- What year is this? (1 point)
- What month is this? (1 point)
- What is the day of the week? (1 point)
- What were the 3 objects? (1 point each)
- Interpretation
- No errors: Cognitive Impairment unlikely
- Three or more errors: High likelihood of Dementia
- References
- Callahan (2002) Med Care 40:771-81 [PubMed]
- Technique: Other brief testing
- General
- Pick 1-2 tests to use for quick screening
- Failure on screening requires Mental Status Exam
- Clock Drawing Test
- Time and Change Test
- Verbal Fluency Test
- Screens for Language and Executive Functioning Impairment
- Make Change
- Here is 67 cents (and tester gives patient change)
- Please give me 32 cents (patient gives back coins)
- WORLD Testing
- Spell WORLD
- Spell WORLD Backwards
- Alphabetize letters in WORLD
- Orientation
- Day of week and Date
- Current address
- Current president
- History suggestive of Dementia
- Repetitive questioning may be early marker of Dementia
- Ready (2003) J Am Geriatr Soc 51:32-7 [PubMed]
- References
- Callahan (2002) Med Care 40:771-81 [PubMed]
- Karlawish (2003) Ann Intern Med 138:411-9 [PubMed]