1. Using the Oxford Cognitive Screen to Detect Cognitive Impairment in Stroke Patients: A Comparison with the Mini-Mental State Examination
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Mauro Mancuso, Nele Demeyere, Laura Abbruzzese, Alessio Damora, Valentina Varalta, Fabio Pirrotta, Gabriella Antonucci, Alessandro Matano, Marina Caputo, Maria Giovanna Caruso, Giovanna Teresa Pontiggia, Michela Coccia, Irene Ciancarelli, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, The Italian OCS Group, Chiara Beni, Fabio Giovannelli, Ivana Bureca, Mauro Zampolini, Adonella Benedetti, Nicola Smania, Cristina Fonte, Elisa Ghirardi, Maurizio Iocco, Federica Galli, Laura Prospero, Adriana Gadaleta, Maristella Scattaglia, Franco Valluzzi, Nicoletta Caputi, Serena De Pellegrin, Michelangelo Bartolo, Chiara Zucchella, Pietro Spinelli, Irene Aprile, Caterina Pistarini, Valeria Pingue, and Mirco Soda
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stroke ,cognitive assessment ,Oxford Cognitive Screen ,Mini-Mental State Examination ,cognitive screening ,Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,RC346-429 - Abstract
BackgroundThe Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) was recently developed with the aim of describing the cognitive deficits after stroke. The scale consists of 10 tasks encompassing five cognitive domains: attention and executive function, language, memory, number processing, and praxis. OCS was devised to be inclusive and un-confounded by aphasia and neglect. As such, it may have a greater potential to be informative on stroke cognitive deficits of widely used instruments, such as the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) or the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which were originally devised for demented patients.ObjectiveThe present study compared the OCS with the MMSE with regards to their ability to detect cognitive impairments post-stroke. We further aimed to examine performance on the OCS as a function of subtypes of cerebral infarction and clinical severity.Methods325 first stroke patients were consecutively enrolled in the study over a 9-month period. The OCS and MMSE, as well as the Bamford classification and NIHSS, were given according to standard procedures.ResultsAbout a third of patients (35.3%) had a performance lower than the cutoff (
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- 2018
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