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Which screening test is the gold standard for clinical diagnosis of dementia? - ANS
✔✔Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS)

Which screening test for dementia lacks executive function and visuospatial assessment? - ANS
✔✔Memory Impairment Screen

True or False: The Mini Mental State Exam can be used to diagnose a patient with dementia. -
ANS ✔✔False. The MMSE is only a screening tool for dementia- it has a floor/ceiling effect.

What is the cutoff score indicating significant cognitive impairment in the MMSE? - ANS
✔✔23/24

Which test can distinguish delirium from other types of cognitive impairment, but cannot
classify the level of delirium? - ANS ✔✔Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)

True or False: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is useful for patients with vascular dementia.
- ANS ✔✔True.

This test is more accurate than the MMSE, focuses more on executive function and has excellent
diagnostic accuracy for dementia. - ANS ✔✔Addenbrookes Cognitive Assessment

This scale is used to assess the stages of dementia. - ANS ✔✔Global Deterioration Scale

This stage of the GDS includes trouble with finances, word finding, start to withdraw, forget
recent conversations. It lasts about 2 years. - ANS ✔✔Late Confusion/ Mild Alzheimer's -- Stage
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