Cardiff07 - Is It Time for the MMSE to Retire (Oct 2007)
1. Is It Time for the MMSE to Retire?
Evidence of Better Shorter Tests for Dementia
Alex Mitchell
Consultant Hon SnR Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry, Leicester
Cardiff 20th Anniversary Conference October 2007
2. When is it time to retire?
• When your job is done?
• When you are no longer making a difference?
• When you have been superseded?
• When you have been around a long time?
• When you are fed up with the latest changes?
3. What is the most cited study in psychiatry?
• Folstein M, Folstein S, McHugh P. Mini-Mental State. A
practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for
the clinician. J Psych Res 1975;12:189–198.