Adjusting Mini-Mental State Examination Scores for Age and Educational Level to Screen for Dementia: Correcting Bias or Reducing Validity?
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- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- dementia
- Published by Elsevier in International Psychogeriatrics
- Vol. 10 (1) , 43-51
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1041610298005134
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