Screening cognitive decline in

dementia: preliminary data on the

Italian version of the IQCODE
Neurological Sciences

September 2002, Volume 23, Supplement 2, pp s79–s80 | Cite as

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Abstract.

The IQCODE is a retrospective questionnaire for caregivers about changes which

occurred in a patient's cognitive and functional efficiency in the previous 10 years
of life. Previous studies demonstrated the validity of the IQCODE for the
screening of dementia similar to that of traditional cognitive screening tests, with
the additional advantage of allowing the detection of cognitive change, rather than
just cognitive impairment. The present paper deals with the preliminary results of
the validation of the Italian version of the questionnaire in a sample of 45 mild to
severely demented patients and 13 patients with mild cognitive impairment
(MCI), compared to 20 cognitively intact elderly subjects. The IQCODE
demonstrated satisfactory discriminative power for dementia as well as for MCI
and a good correlation with the MMSE.

Keywords
Dementia Cognitive Impairment Mild Cognitive Impairment
Cognitive Decline Preliminary Data
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experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm
improves.

Correspondence to I. Appollonio

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Cite this article as:
Isella, V., Villa, M., Frattola, L. et al. Neurol Sci (2002) 23(Suppl 2): s79.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100720200079

DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s100720200079
Publisher Name Springer-Verlag Italia
Print ISSN 1590-1874
Online ISSN 1590-3478

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