{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zienius K"],"funding":["The Brain Tumour Charity"],"pagination":["127"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8978365"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["22(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Patients with brain tumours often present with non-specific symptoms. Correctly identifying who to prioritise for urgent brain imaging is challenging. Brain tumours are amongst the commonest cancers diagnosed as an emergency presentation. A verbal fluency task (VFT) is a rapid triage test affected by disorders of executive function, language and processing speed. We tested whether a VFT could support identification of patients with a brain tumour.<h4>Methods</h4>This proof-of-concept study examined whether a VFT can help differentiate patients with a brain tumour from those with similar symptoms (i.e. headache) without a brain tumour. Two patient populations were recruited, (a) patients with known brain tumour, and (b) patients with headache referred for Direct-Access Co"],"journal":["BMC neurology"],"pubmed_title":["Verbal fluency as a quick and simple tool to help in deciding when to refer patients with a possible brain tumour."],"pmcid":["PMC8978365"],"funding_grant_id":["GN-000295"],"pubmed_authors":["Hollingworth W","Brennan PM","Porteous L","Grant R","Ozawa M","Ben-Shlomo Y","Hamilton W","Weller D","Zienius K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Verbal fluency as a quick and simple tool to help in deciding when to refer patients with a possible brain tumour.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Patients with brain tumours often present with non-specific symptoms. Correctly identifying who to prioritise for urgent brain imaging is challenging. Brain tumours are amongst the commonest cancers diagnosed as an emergency presentation. A verbal fluency task (VFT) is a rapid triage test affected by disorders of executive function, language and processing speed. We tested whether a VFT could support identification of patients with a brain tumour.<h4>Methods</h4>This proof-of-concept study examined whether a VFT can help differentiate patients with a brain tumour from those with similar symptoms (i.e. headache) without a brain tumour. Two patient populations were recruited, (a) patients with known brain tumour, and (b) patients with headache referred for Direct-Access Co","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Apr","modification":"2025-05-29T21:26:08.079Z","creation":"2025-05-29T21:26:08.079Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8978365","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35379182"],"doi":["10.1186/s12883-022-02655-9"]}}