Reliability of a Standardized Mini-Mental State Compared With the Traditional Mini-Mental Examination D. William

Molloy,

Objective: The State Examination has expanded elderly

for administration

of a nursing

home

and

and

tested on and third

used

was

variance.

three weeks

different occasions and 4-6 different

one-way

analysis

Results:

The

on

State

was

0.69;

for

the

standardized

The

M.Sc.,

of the Mini-Mental Examination, which subjects

of a chronic

to 22 of these to 26 of these

the interrater

all

occasions

was

interrater variance was reduced by 76% when the Standardized the reductions in variance were significant (p

Reliability of a Standardized Mini-Mental State Examination compared with the traditional Mini-Mental State Examination.

The objective of this study was to compare the reliability of the Mini-Mental State Examination with that of a new Standardized Mini-Mental State Exam...
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