Screening cognitive decline in dementia: preliminary data on the Italian version of the IQCODE

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Isella, V [1 ]
Villa, ML [1 ]
Frattola, L [1 ]
Appollonio, I [1 ]
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[1] Univ Milan, Osped San Gerardo, Dept Neurol, Monza, Italy
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10.1007/s100720200079
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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The IQCODE is a retrospective questionnaire for caregivers about changes which occurred in a patient's cognitive and functional efficiency in the previous 10 years of life. Previous studies demonstrated the validity of the IQCODE for the screening of dementia similar to that of traditional cognitive screening tests, with the additional advantage of allowing the detection of cognitive change, rather than just cognitive impairment. The present paper deals with the preliminary results of the validation of the Italian version of the questionnaire in a sample. of 45 mild to severely demented patients and 13 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), compared. to 20 cognitively intact elderly subjects. The IQCODE demonstrated satisfactory discriminative power for dementia as well as for MCI and a good correlation with the MMSE.
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