Within-Session Practice Effects in Patients Referred for Suspected Dementia
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Within-session practice effects in patients referred for suspected dementia.
BACKGROUND Practice effects are improvements in cognitive test performance associated with repeated administrations of same or similar measures and are traditionally seen as error variance. However, there is growing evidence that practice effects provide clinically useful information. METHODS Within-session practice effects (WISPE) across 2 h were collected from 61 non-consecutive patients re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1420-8008,1421-9824
DOI: 10.1159/000339268