A Scoring Error in the Mini-Mental State Test
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 38 (9) , 603-605
- https://doi.org/10.1177/070674379303800907
Abstract
A scoring error is identified in the Mini-Mental and the Modified Mini-Mental State test. The major effect of this error is to produce a gap in the total score distribution of the test, resulting in a potential spurious underestimation of the score. Two possible remedies are suggested to resolve this problem.Keywords
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