Cognitive impairment in medical inpatients. II: Do physicians miss cognitive impairment?

Cognitive impairment in medical inpatients. II: Do physicians miss cognitive impairment?

AIM to study the recognition of cognitive impairment in elderly medical inpatients by medical staff. METHODS 201 patients over 65 were assessed by administration of standard cognitive screening tests and an interview with relatives. We made Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) IIIR diagnoses of various causes of cognitive impairment and clinical diagnoses for those patients not fulfilling ...

Cognitive impairment in bipolar II disorder.

BACKGROUND Persistent impairments in neurocognitive function have been described in bipolar disorder. AIMS To compare the cognitive performance of patients with bipolar II disorder with that of patients with bipolar I disorder and a healthy control group. METHOD The study included 71 euthymic patients with bipolar disorder (38 bipolar I, 33 bipolar II), who were compared on clinical and neu...

Cognitive impairment

Cognitive impairment

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Cognitive impairment in medical inpatients. I: Screening for dementia--is history better than mental state?

BACKGROUND evaluation of the short version of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) and the Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) as screening tools for dementia in medical inpatients. METHODS 201 patients over 65 were assessed. Assessment included administration of the AMT, a delirium screening instrument and a brief psychiatric interview. Relatives were interviewe...