Manual of Screeners for Dementia Pragmatic Test Accuracy Studies
This book draws on the author’s experience in conducting pragmatic test accuracy studies on screening instruments for dementia/mild cognitive impairment. To facilitate comprehension and assimilation, all data is presented in an easily accessible, succinct
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Manual of Screeners for Dementia
A. J. Larner
Manual of Screeners for Dementia Pragmatic Test Accuracy Studies
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A. J. Larner Cognitive Function Clinic Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery Liverpool, UK
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To L F Pragmatism—is that all you have to offer? [Tom Stoppard, Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead] It starts with Einstein. He shows that measurement … is not an impersonal event that occurs with universal impartiality. It’s a human act, carried out from a specific point of view in time and space, from the one particular viewpoint of a possible observer. [Michael Frayn, Copenhagen]
Preface
This book emerges from a conjunction of interests first partially addressed in previous volumes. Just as Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies in Dementia [3, 7], a general account of the theory and practice of diagnostic test accuracy studies (DTAS), developed from Chap. 2 of Dementia in Clinical Practice: a neurological perspective 2nd edition [2], so the current volume is a development of Chaps. 3–6 of Dementia in Clinical Practice: a neurological perspective 3rd edition [5]. Specifically, it aims to highlight experience in undertaking pragmatic DTAS of screening instruments relevant to clinical practice in a dedicated cognitive disorders clinic (some of which have been included in systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and national dementia guidelines). The fact that a previous volume on cognitive screening instruments [4] achieved more than 15000 chapter downloads in less than 18 months from publication su
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