Reliability of the assessment of the clinical dementia rating scale from the analysis of medical records in comparison with the reference method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale allows to detect the presence of dementia and to assess its severity, however its evaluation requires a significant time (45 min). We evaluated the agreement between two methods of collection of the CDR: face-to-face interview or based on the information available in the patient's medical record.

Methods

The CLIMER study was conducted among patients attending a memory center. The CDR scale was evaluated during face-to-face interviews between neuropsychologists and patients and their caregivers and based on blind analysis of the information of the patients' medical record by neuropsychologists. The agreement of the CDR sum of boxes (CDR-SB), the 5-point scale CDR and the different domains of the CDR evaluated between the dif

SUBMITTER: Dauphinot V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11376013 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature