Mental Status Schedule - Statistics & numerical data
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mental status exam in primary care: a review.

13 Oct 2009 The mental status examination is an essential tool that aids physicians in making psychiatric diagnoses. Familiarity with the components of the examination can help physicians evaluate for and differentiate psychiatric disorders. The mental status ... Read more...

Comparison of patient and caregiver reports of patient activity participation and its relationship to mental health in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

3 Oct 2009 The relationship between engagement in pleasant activities as rated by the patient and as rated by the caregiver from the patient's perspective was examined using structural equation modeling in a sample of patients (N = 277) diagnosed with mild to ... Read more...

Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Communication problems are common in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, but instruments to assess these symptoms are limited. Our objective was to create a new scale, based on the language subscale of the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB), ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Status Schedule - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mental status exam in primary care: a review. 13 Oct 2009
• Comparison of patient and caregiver reports of patient activity participation and its relationship to mental health in patients with Alzheimer's disease. 3 Oct 2009
• Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Comorbid depression in dementia on psychogeriatric nursing home wards: which symptoms are prominent? 29 Jun 2009
• Practical depression screening in residential care/assisted living: five methods compared with gold standard diagnoses. 29 Jun 2009
• Clinically significant depressive symptoms and associated factors in community elderly subjects from Sao Paulo, Brazil. 29 Jun 2009
• Case-control study of suicide attempts in the elderly. 17 Jun 2009
• Validation of a German version of the Confusion Assessment Method for delirium detection in a sample of acute geriatric patients with a high prevalence of dementia. 10 Jun 2009
• Lithium trial in Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter 10-week study. 30 May 2009
• The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study of aging: methodology and baseline characteristics of 1112 individuals recruited for a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease. 25 May 2009
• Childhood living conditions, socioeconomic position in adulthood, and cognition in later life: exploring the associations. 4 May 2009
• Effect of a serotonin reuptake inhibitor on irritability, apathy, and psychotic symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease. 3 May 2009
• Performance of Brazilian long and short IQCODE on the screening of dementia in elderly people with low education. 25 Mar 2009
• Text comprehension products and processes in young, young-old, and old-old adults. 10 Mar 2009
• Association between anticholinergic drugs and apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele and poorer cognitive function in older cardiovascular patients: a cross-sectional study. 27 Feb 2009
• Treatment with metformin is protective against limitations in instrumental activities of daily living in older subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus. 27 Feb 2009
• The utility of the Mini-Mental State Examination in guiding assessment of capacity to consent to research. 25 Feb 2009
• Vascular risk factors and cognitive function among 3763 participants in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET): a cross-sectional analysis. 25 Feb 2009
• Reliability and validity of the telephone version of the Cantonese Mini-mental State Examination (T-CMMSE) when used with elderly patients with and without dementia in Hong Kong. 24 Feb 2009
• Nature, prevalence and factors associated with depression among the elderly in a rural south Indian community. 24 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Status Schedule'

Definition: Standardized clinical interview used to assess current psychopathology by scaling patient responses to the questions.

Descriptor UI: D008609

Alternative terms: Mental Status Schedule; Mental Status Schedules; Schedule, Mental Status; Schedules, Mental Status; Status Schedule, Mental; Status Schedules, Mental;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F04.586.574;

Online Note: search PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1969-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES 1975-90