BACKGROUND evaluation of the short version of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) and the Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) as screening tools for dementia in medical inpatients. METHODS 201 patients over 65 were assessed. Assessment included administration of the AMT, a delirium screening instrument and a brief psychiatric interview. Relatives were interviewe...

AIM Through a complex combination of direct (face-valid) and indirect (subtle) subscales, the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) is purported to detect substance use disorders with a high degree of validity regardless of respondent honesty or motivation. This review evaluates empirical evidence regarding the reliability and validity of this widely used screening instrument. ME...

BACKGROUND In Sri Lanka, behavioural problems have grown to epidemic proportions accounting second highest category of mental health problems among children. Early identification of behavioural problems in children is an important pre-requisite of the implementation of interventions to prevent long term psychiatric outcomes. The objectives of the study were to develop and validate a screening i...

The overall aim of this thesis was to develop, test and use a simple, clinically useful instrument for the nutritional screening of older patients. Four studies were performed, with a quantitative approach, in a geriatric rehabilitation ward in western Sweden. The number of patients who participated was: 56 (I), 114 (II), 147 (III) and 144 (IV) older patients. A nutritional screening instrument...

Objective: The study objectives were to develop and validate a substance use disorder screening instrument for vocational rehabilitation customers. Beginning with the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory–3 (SASSI-3), the authors developed items pertaining to prescription medication misuse and modified other items. Research Method/Design: Data were collected for the cross-sectional cohort ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the Western Aphasia Battery – Revised (WAB-R) screening test, thus contributing to future applications of the instrument with Brazilian adults. Methods: The adaptation was based on a universalist perspective. The steps for conceptual, item, semantic and operational equivalence were strictly followed, resulting in a s...

Preliminary observations indicate the feasibility of capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) with the Agilent LC/MSD Trap system to be capable of detecting drugs at <20 ng/mL in whole blood, suggesting that it may be a suitable tool for screening whole blood samples for drugs. Additionally, the capability of generating MS data permits reliable identification of detected drugs, sugge...

Background Pinprick perception, 128-Hz tuning fork vibration detection, ankle reflexes, vibration perception threshold (VPT) with a biothesiometer or similar instrument, and four site 10g monofilament assessment are all currently recommended methods for screening for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). However, there is limited research investigating the reliability of these tests. The aim of...

We have developed an on-the-fly scanning spectrometer operating in the UV-visible and near-infrared that can simultaneously perform transmission and total reflectance measurements at the rate better than 1 sample per second. High throughput optical characterization is important for screening functional materials for a variety of new applications. We demonstrate the utility of the instrument for...