Brief cognitive screening instruments for early detection of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:The objective of this systematic review was (1) to give an overview of the available short screening instruments for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and (2) to review the psychometric properties of these instruments. METHODS:First, a systematic search of titles and abstracts of PubMed and Web of Science was conducted between February and July 2015 and updated in April 2016 and May 2018. Only papers written in English or Dutch were considered. All full-text papers about cognitive screening instruments for the early detection of AD were included, resulting in the identification of 38 pencil and paper tests and 12 computer tests. In a second step, the psychometric quality of these instruments was evaluated. Therefore, the same databases were searched again to identi

SUBMITTER: De Roeck EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396539 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature