Evaluación del minimental abreviado de la evaluación funcional del adulto mayor (EFAM) como screening para la detección de demencia en la atención primaria / Performance of an abbreviated mini mental examination to detect dementia in older people
Rev. méd. Chile
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145(7): 862-868, jul. 2017. tab, graf
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ABSTRACT
Background:
The usefulness of the abbreviated Mini-Mental State Examination included in the Chilean Functional assessment of elderly people (MM-SE-EFAM) to detect Dementia has not been determined.Aim:
To assess the performance of the MMSE-EFAM to detect dementia. Material andMethods:
We studied a non-probabilistic sample of subjects older than 65 years who had been assessed by the MMSE-EFAM in a Chilean primary care center during a period of 6 months. Patients underwent clinical evaluation by a neurologist blinded to MMSE-EFAM score, to establish the diagnosis of dementia using DSM-IV-TR criteria. Besides, the full Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was applied.Results:
The clinical diagnosis of Dementia was established in 13 of the 54 peoples evaluated. MMSE-EFAM had a sensitivity of 30.8% (95% confidence intervals (CI); 9-61.4) and a specificity of 90.2% (95% CI; 76.9%-97.3%), while MMSE had a sensitivity of 84.6% (95% CI; 54.6-98.1) and a specificity of 58.5% (95% CI; 42.1-73.7). In a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, the areas under the curve (AUC) were 0.77 (95% CI; 0.61-0.93) and 0.82 (95% CI; 0.70-0.95) for MMSE-EFAM and MMSE, respectively. Socio-demographic variables did not influence test performance in both cases.Conclusions:
MMSE-EFAM has a low sensitivity to detect patients with Dementia and it is not an effective screening tool. These results are in agreement with the evidence and international guidelines that do not support the use of cognitive screening tools to detect dementia in the older general population.
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Asunto principal:
Atención Primaria de Salud
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Evaluación Geriátrica
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Demencia
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Manual Diagnóstico y Estadístico de los Trastornos Mentales
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio diagnóstico
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Guía de Práctica Clínica
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Estudio pronóstico
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Estudio de tamizaje
Límite:
Anciano
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Femenino
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Humanos
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Masculino
País/Región como asunto:
America del Sur
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Chile
Idioma:
Español
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Asunto de la revista:
Medicina
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Chile
Institución/País de afiliación:
Hospital del Salvador/CL
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