Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (BCSB) is a very useful tool for diagnosis of probable mild Alzheimer´s disease in a geriatric clinic

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Helenice Fichman-charchat¹  Cristina Vieira Miranda¹  Conceição Santos Fernandes¹  Daniel Mograbi¹  Rosinda Martins Oliveira¹  Regina Novaes¹  Daniele Aguiar¹ 

关键词: Alzheimer’s disease;    aging;    memory;    doença de Alzheimer;    envelhecimento;    memória;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0004-282X20150202

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT The diagnosis of early signs of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major challenge in a heterogeneous population.ObjectiveTo investigate the use of the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (BCSB) for the diagnosis of mild AD in a geriatric outpatient unit of a public hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro.MethodBCSB was administered to 51 elderly adults with a clinical diagnosis of probable AD and 123 older adults without dementia (non-AD).ResultsAD patients performed worse than non-AD group in all BCSB tests, except Clock Drawing (p = 0.10). The ROC curves and Logistic Regression analysis indicated that delayed recall in the figure memory test was the best predictor, screening mild AD patients with sensibility and specificity superior to 80%.ConclusionThe BCSB was accurate in identifying people with AD in a geriatric outpatient clinic at a public hospital, including elderly people with chronic diseases, physical frailty and cognitive impairment

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