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Mental Status ExamAka: Mental Status Screening
- Exam: Patient Alert
- Quick Screening (Standardized screening if positive)
- Standardized Screening
- Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE)
- Screening gold standard
- Requires payment for clinical use
- Copland's Short-Test of Mental Status
- Free scale with similar accuracy to MMSE
- Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)
- Assesses for Delirium
- Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE)
- Blessed Information Memory Concentration (BIMC)
- Tests orientation, memory, concentration, naming
- Positive if >10 mistakes (out of 28 possible)
- Blessed Orientation Memory Concentration (BOMC)
- Shortened version of BIMC (6 questions)
- Positive if >10 mistakes
- Short Test of Mental Status (STMS)
- Tests orientation, attention, recall, and copying
- Also tests calculation, abstraction, clock drawing
- Positive if score <30 (out of 38 possible points)
- Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE)
- Focus areas for examination
- Alertness and Orientation
- Appearance, Attentiveness (Hallucinations)
- Language (speech flow and content)
- Memory
- Perceptions
- Thought processes (coherent or disorganized)
- Exam: Patient not alert
- Geriatric Assessment Tools
Mini-mental state examination (C0451306) | |
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| Concepts | Diagnostic Procedure (T060) , Intellectual Product (T170) |
| English | Mini-mental state examination, MMSE - Mini-mental state examination |
| Spanish | examen mental abreviado |
| Parent Concepts | Assessment scales (C0450973) |
| Sources | SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
