Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation CADTH. Screening tools to identify adults with mild cognitive impairment not associated with dementia: a review of diagnostic accuracy, effectiveness and guidelines. Ottawa: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). Rapid Response - Summary with Critical Appraisal. 2013 Authors' conclusions Screening tools may be classified as comprehensive or non-comprehensive. Comprehensive tools evaluate all primary domains of cognitive function, namely memory, language, visuospatial/perceptual processing, attention, and executive functioning. They are reported to be suitable for more specialist level of care. ACE-R and MoCA are two comprehensive tests found to have high accuracies in differentiating mild cognitive impairment from normal controls. However, their ability to distinguish MCI from early Alzheimers dementia was not examined. Non-comprehensive screens examine only a limited number of domains and may be more suited to general practice. In this report, DemTect and M@T are as examples of non-comprehensive tools that can differentiate MCI from NC. M@T, but not DemTect, has the additional ability to differentiate MCI from AD with high accuracy. Both the Qmci and QCST are reported to require a very short time to administer and score. They have the ability to differentiate between MCI and NC as well as between MCI and mild AD. Currently there is no consensus on a single most accurate screening tool for MCI. Indexing Status Subject indexing assigned by CRD MeSH Cognitions; Mass Screening; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Neuropsychological Tests Language Published English Country of organisation Canada English summary An English language summary is available. Address for correspondence Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), 865 Carling Avenue, Suite 600, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5S8 Email: requests@cadth.ca AccessionNumber 32014000084 Date abstract record published 23/01/2014 |